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This area of the site will help you understand
how to control the various
aspects of a domain:
REGISTRY:
This is where the controlling ISP has your
domain registered. The
registeries all have slightly different ways
of working and control
different types of domains. Nominet for example
control ALL the uk domains
while the .com domains can be held with any
of a thousand registeries.
Understanding the rules and regulations of
each registry is more a matter
for the controlling ISP than the owner, unless
they want to be the Admin,
Billing or Technical contact.
ISP:
The Internet Service Provider is the one that
controls the domain, talks to
the registry on the owners' behalf and usually
supplies the services. With a
uk domain this means holding the IPS tag (ours
is SKYMARKET) and with
general domains it means the domain itself
is in their account at the
registry.
DNS:
Domain Name Servers are an indication whose
servers the domain is pointing
at (linked to) and therefore who is supplying
the email or webspace for that
domain. There are exceptions to this though
(see below)
WWW RECORD:
The WWW record indicates who is supplying the
webspace ONLY, and this can
contradict the DNS settings.
MX RECORD:
The MX record indicates who is supplying the
email ONLY, and this can
contradict the DNS settings.
EXAMPLE:
If I owned the domain, internet.co.uk (I wish!)
then it would be held at Nominet.
If I wanted Skymarket to control it and renew
it for me then the IPS tag
would need to be SKYMARKET.
If I then wanted Skymarket to supply webspace
and email the DNS settings
would need to be theirs (ns1.dnsmaster.net
and ns2.dnsmaster.net).
If I decided a year later to move JUST my email
provision to a new ISP, who
were offering 100 free emails (for example)
then I would ask Skymarket to point
the MX record at the new ISP's servers.
This would then mean that Skymarket control
the domain and supply the
webspace but the other ISP supplies the email. |
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