Hosting and DNS howto, any ideas?

smcelhinney

The scenario is

Company A has registered a domain name on Company B's behalf. www.example.com.

Company B has an existing hosting agreement with a hosting provider. What does Company A need to do, to point the domain to Company B's hosting?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Stephen

Eoin

Company A should edit the DNS records of the domain so it points to the nameservers for the hosting company that Company B has signed up with. If Company B haven't already done it, then they can just add that domain name in their control panel.

smcelhinney

Gotcha.

Stupid question then, whats to stop Company C (who have the same hosting as Company from "hijacking" the domain, and setting up a DNS zone in their own control panel?

Eoin

Good question - if the domain hasn't already been attached to an account that exists on the hosting company, then it could be possible - but that is a complete guess on my behalf - I don't know enough about this area.

Of course if it was possible, Company C won't have access to the domain itself, so if the NS information was changed again, then Company C's hi-jacked site wouldn't be accessible through that domain name.

Axwell

smcelhinney wrote: »

Gotcha.

Stupid question then, whats to stop Company C (who have the same hosting as Company from "hijacking" the domain, and setting up a DNS zone in their own control panel?

I would think the answer is not much but its a very specific and unlikely case of ifs and buts and would require Company C knowing that A had just redirected the domains DNS and getting in their before Company B's hosting had been updated to accept the domain and before the update that happens twice a day to the DNS.

mneylon

Company C could intercept the domain if it was a .com

If it was a .ie it's a lot less likely, as the dns shouldn't update until the zones are loaded on the new provider's side