Host DNS

Why Host DNS?

Have you ever wondered why you should get a service to provider to host DNS for you? Technically, this question can be phrased as, “what does a DNS host do?” Basically, the host DNS service includes three basic services: the registering, the set-up, and the configuring of the domain name. This is a problem website owners do not have to contend with when their sites are hosted by free web hosts—with a pre-determined domain name and hardly customizable web address. However, in other cases, a host DNS service is required.

The registering is the most basic of all the services done by the domain name host. Here, the host simply registers or places your domain name in the domain name system, to make sure that domain name can be used to direct clients to a website. However, registering isn’t the be all and end all of that service—the host DNS registering the domain name does not mean that it can already direct clients to the website.

This is where the domain name set-up is required. Here, the host DNS service inputs certain details to the forward lookup zone particular to the domain name itself in the domain name system. Certain details include the Start of Authority record (the proof that the domain name is registered and is therefore official), among other details that can connect the domain name and web address to the web server and website. The last task of the host DNS service provider is the configuration. Here, web host should work with the domain name host to configure the server to the domain name.