DNS
Registration Records
There is a bit more involved in matching a
domain name to an IP address than just having
this information in a DNS table on a name
server. Since there may be times when you
want to add a domain name to your account,
or change the way your existing domain name
is handled, it is important to have some understanding
of how DNS works.
There are organizations
responsible for distributing domain names
for those who wish to use them. Many countries
have their own organization, often called
an NIC agency. For most U.S. domain names,
including those ending in .com, .net, .org,
and .edu , this organization is called InterNIC.
InterNIC is currently owned by a company
called Network Solutions and is headquartered
in Herndon, Virginia.
In order to use a specific
domain name with your account, you must
register the domain name with the NIC agency
responsible for that domain. The registration
process differs slightly depending on the
NIC agency. A domain name registration
shows the contact, technical and billing
information for the domain, and defines
a specific name server or group of name
servers that will contain the information
about where that domain name should point.
The name servers that appear
in a domain’s registration record are
called authoritative, because they contain
the most current and correct name server
information about the domain. For example,
the domain registration for the domain
Wapers.com
appears as follows:
_____________________________________________________________
Registrant:
Wapers, Inc (WAPERS-DOM)
278-34,Samsundong-1ga,Sungbuk-gu
Seoul, SL 136-041
KR
Domain Name: WAPERS.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Lee, Sander (SL1984) sander@ELIM.NET
Sander & Associates
280-15,14/8,2F,Samsundong1ga,Seong bukgu,
Seoul
KR
8227637119 (FAX) 8224848577
Record expires on 08-Jun-2003.
Record created on 08-Jun-1999.
Database last updated on 19-May-2002
19:42:18 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NIS.DACOM.CO.KR 164.124.101.31
NS2.DACOM.CO.KR 203.248.240.31
_____________________________________________________________
You can see from this record
that the Registrant, or the organization
that owns the domain, is Virtual Servers,
LLC. The Administrative Contact, who is
in charge of how this domain name is managed,
is listed as “DNS Administrator.”
A domain registration record also shows
the name servers that are authoritative
for the IP addresses to which the domain
should point. The two name servers in this
record are:
NIS.DACOM.CO.KR
NS2.DACOM.CO.KR
Registration information
such as this is kept by the NIC agencies
responsible for different types of domain
names all over the world. It is important
to note that domain registration records
do not contain the IP addresses where
a domain name should point, but merely the
name and IP address of the name server that
contain this information.
You can view the domain
registration record for any existing
domain name by trying out our Domain
search facility.
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