Brandon Coppernoll Web content management, internet marketing and social media in Indiana

Steps to moving domain name servers

I am currently working on an internal project to move hosted sites to a new server. In the process we are moving domain name servers to gain more control over what records are involved with the domains we are hosting. This takes considerable planning and forethought as we don't want our clients to experience any down time with email or their web site.

Here are some steps that need to be taken when moving domain name servers:

• Gather a list of domains you control you wish to move
• Obtain a list of all A, CNAME, MX and other records under each domain
• On your local or hosted DNS provider check and double-check the records as you enter them for each domain.

Assuming there were no typos, mistakes or missing records when you're done you should have no interruption of service even though DNS has moved. The new DNS will be pointing to the same locations for your sites as before, but you should now have more control over the DNS.

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