DNTemple | Discuss Domains, Webhosting and Webdesign

Yesterday my friend told me that she was buying a DNS from n4me.eu.
I wanted to ask what is DNS and why do you need it, anyway?

Simboy wrote:Yesterday my friend told me that she was buying a DNS from n4me.eu.
I wanted to ask what is DNS and why do you need it, anyway?

You need a dns so your domain can connect the server (usually it is ns1.thehostdomain.tld and ns2.the hostdomain.tld , and usually you don't have to buy and it come included with a package)

What the difference between url cloaking and dns.
-Url Cloaking is bassically and iframe so it covers a sub-domain of a site so it will always look like http://www.example.com
-Dns Redirection connects the domain name to the server as I said above so it can look like http://www.example.com/index.html or or http://www.example.com/home/index.php

Why should I us dns

Remember what I said Url cloaking is bassically and iframe so you can't link to a specific page on your website because all the pages will look the same http://www.example.com while dns you can link to a certain page

rokudaime wrote:

Simboy wrote:Yesterday my friend told me that she was buying a DNS from n4me.eu.
I wanted to ask what is DNS and why do you need it, anyway?

You need a dns so your domain can connect the server (usually it is ns1.thehostdomain.tld and ns2.the hostdomain.tld , and usually you don't have to buy and it come included with a package)

What the difference between url cloaking and dns.
-Url Cloaking is bassically and iframe so it covers a sub-domain of a site so it will always look like http://www.example.com
-Dns Redirection connects the domain name to the server as I said above so it can look like http://www.example.com/index.html or or http://www.example.com/home/index.php

Why should I us dns

Remember what I said Url cloaking is bassically and iframe so you can't link to a specific page on your website because all the pages will look the same http://www.example.com while dns you can link to a certain page

Wow... Thanks. I really think I should get one too. I had planned to cloak my affiliate links. Thanks again.

Simboy wrote:

rokudaime wrote:

Simboy wrote:Yesterday my friend told me that she was buying a DNS from n4me.eu.
I wanted to ask what is DNS and why do you need it, anyway?

You need a dns so your domain can connect the server (usually it is ns1.thehostdomain.tld and ns2.the hostdomain.tld , and usually you don't have to buy and it come included with a package)

What the difference between url cloaking and dns.
-Url Cloaking is bassically and iframe so it covers a sub-domain of a site so it will always look like http://www.example.com
-Dns Redirection connects the domain name to the server as I said above so it can look like http://www.example.com/index.html or or http://www.example.com/home/index.php

Why should I us dns

Remember what I said Url cloaking is bassically and iframe so you can't link to a specific page on your website because all the pages will look the same http://www.example.com while dns you can link to a certain page

Wow... Thanks. I really think I should get one too. I had planned to cloak my affiliate links. Thanks again.

You're Welcome I am glad I could help.

@ rokudaime

Nice explanation.

ANd Simboy, like rokudaime posted, DNS is free and usually comes with the domain. It's should be cause we can't use a domain w/o DNS. Nobody buys a DNS.

URL cloaking is an entirely separate topic.

pebbleworm wrote:@ rokudaime

Nice explanation.

ANd Simboy, like rokudaime posted, DNS is free and usually comes with the domain. It's should be cause we can't use a domain w/o DNS. Nobody buys a DNS.

URL cloaking is an entirely separate topic.

But at n4me.eu it's being sold for 0.12 Eur, ain't it? If that's not DNS then what is it?
http://www.n4me.eu/manageddns.php

Whoops. IMO, 'buying a DNS' isn't the right way to put it. Either your friend is buying a domain or buying a domain and adding a zone to it. Zoning basically means adding Managed DNS to the domain. Managed DNS allows you to add records such as: A, CNAME, MX. These records help you a great deal if you know how to use them. You can configure a host server, a mail server, can use it for load balancing - there are a lot of possibilities.

Another advantage of managed DNS is, when you make any changes, they are instant; meaning, you don't have to wait for DNS propagation.

But managed DNS is not for everyone. Buy it only if you are running a mailserver which is different from your host, or making a lot of changes to your nameservers. Or else, you may notice no difference after the initial set up.

Hope that clears things up a bit.

lol

SO that's what you meant by buying DNS. We don't really need to buy Managed DNS unless we need them like Sterex explained.

Sterex wrote:Whoops. IMO, 'buying a DNS' isn't the right way to put it. Either your friend is buying a domain or buying a domain and adding a zone to it. Zoning basically means adding Managed DNS to the domain. Managed DNS allows you to add records such as: A, CNAME, MX. These records help you a great deal if you know how to use them. You can configure a host server, a mail server, can use it for load balancing - there are a lot of possibilities.

Another advantage of managed DNS is, when you make any changes, they are instant; meaning, you don't have to wait for DNS propagation.

But managed DNS is not for everyone. Buy it only if you are running a mailserver which is different from your host, or making a lot of changes to your nameservers. Or else, you may notice no difference after the initial set up.

Hope that clears things up a bit.

Thanks. I think the Managed DNS thingie is not for me.

Again thanks for the info

Sterex wrote:Whoops. IMO, 'buying a DNS' isn't the right way to put it. Either your friend is buying a domain or buying a domain and adding a zone to it. Zoning basically means adding Managed DNS to the domain. Managed DNS allows you to add records such as: A, CNAME, MX. These records help you a great deal if you know how to use them. You can configure a host server, a mail server, can use it for load balancing - there are a lot of possibilities.

Another advantage of managed DNS is, when you make any changes, they are instant; meaning, you don't have to wait for DNS propagation.

But managed DNS is not for everyone. Buy it only if you are running a mailserver which is different from your host, or making a lot of changes to your nameservers. Or else, you may notice no difference after the initial set up.

Hope that clears things up a bit.

thnx 4 d xplanation sterex i was lukin 4 sumthin lyk dis