These things are far too hard

This post is all about how you can hide your hosting companies name servers. I run a web hosting company, and many of our clients are re-sellers, as you might expect, they don’t want people knowing who we are, so they want to hide our nameservers.

Incidentally, our nameservers are ns1.leadingedgehosting.co.uk & ns2.leadingedgehosting.co.uk

This post will show you how to set up your DNS so you can have ns1.yourdomain.com & ns2.yourdomain.com whatever your web hosts nameservers are.

We use the Plesk control panel so I’m going to demonstrate how to do this using that, but in principle, as long as you have access to your own DNS records you should be able to do this using any control panel.

Step 1.

Create two new A-records on your nameservers for your domain as follows:

These should point to your nameserver IPs.

Step 2.

Register your Glue records with your domain registrar. They will ask you for the IP addresses of your nameservers, these should match your IPs as set up above, and that’s it.

Your domain registrar may have the facility to register Glue records via their control panel, but many don’t, so you may have to email them.

Now you should be able to have ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com and use your web hosting companies nameservers as if they were your own!