When you register a domain at a domain registrar, they provide you with a domain control panel to manage your domain. This is where you can specify the nameservers of the domain. Nameservers are computers that are permanently connected to the internet and translates domain names into machine readable IP addresses (or vice versa) enabling you to enter a domain name like www.example.com inplace of 192.168.1.5. The domain control panel is not the same as cPanel.

The domain control panel also enables you to renew your domain name. You can of course have several domains registered with one registrar or several registrars.

Nameservers specified in the domain control panel are the authoritative nameservers of the domain. In these authoritative nameservers there needs to be a zone file that stores resource records or DNS records which include (A, AAA, NS, CNAME, TXT, SOA records. The NS records in this zone file should be the same as the nameservers entered in the domain control panel for perfect name resolution.


For clients using our nameservers its easy to modify this zone file from within cPanel. However, if you are using external nameservers, you need to update these records directly from there.