If you have a web hosting account, you’ve probably come across mentions of nameservers.

But even if you’ve had to deal with nameservers when managing your hosting account, your web host probably didn’t explain what they are or how they work.

Nameservers are provided by web hosts, and they’re key to your website being visible on the web.

Most nameservers provided by hosts look something like ns1.yourhostdomain.com. You’ll normally be given two different nameservers. Setting up nameservers usually only takes a few seconds once you have the right information.

Every website in existence has an IP address, which is how computers look them up. But to make it easier on us humans, we can get to websites by using domain names instead.

Nameservers are part of DNS, which stands for “Domain Name System.” The DNS is a database that works like a phone book for computers: it converts a domain name, such as “www.example.com,” to a machine-readable IP address, such as “22.231.113.64.” The DNS is maintained by several organizations, including IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

Whenever you type a domain into your browser, nameservers provide the IP address of the domain to your browser. If the DNS didn’t exist, you’d have to memorize strings of numbers for every website you wanted to visit.

In a nutshell, a nameserver is any server that has DNS software installed on it. But usually, “nameserver” refers to a server owned by a web host that is specifically used to manage the domain names associated with their web hosting customers.

To change nameserver for your domain, do the following:


- Login to your Client Area

- Click on Domains->My Domains menu item

- Click on Manage Domain beside the domain you would like to work on

- Click on the Nameservers tab

- Enter your Nameservers and choose "Use custom nameservers (enter below)" option

- Click on the Change Nameservers button

Note:

If your domain name is .ng domain name, you would have to remove the registrar lock before you can change the nameservers of the domain. To do this, click on Registrar Lock on the domain management page and disable the registrar lock.

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