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Search the availability of a Web address (domain name). |
In order for a web site address such as www.serverhosting.net to work from any browser in the world, all three following conditions must be satisfied. We are using serverhosting.net as an example below, replace it with your own dot-com, dot-net or dot-org domain.
- The domain serverhosting.net is registered.
The domain must be registered in the global InterNIC registry. This is the registry that points to one of the Accredited Registrars such as the Network Solutions, Inc. or Register.com. The accredited registrar manages ownership, contact and DNS information for the domain, bills the owner the annual domain registration fee, and is responsible for propagating DNS servers information for the domain through global DNS servers.
In the form below, you can do a two step search to verify whether a domain is in the global InterNIC registry and, if it is, whether the accredited registrar the global registry points to also has the correct ownership, contact and DNS information.
To query, replace serverhosting.net below with your own domain name.
After you have verified above your domain's registration information is correct in the global InterNIC and the accredited registrar registry, use this test to look up global DNS servers to verify the actual DNS servers delegation for serverhosting.net. It is typically to your own DNS servers collocated with us or one of our DNS servers ns.webpros.com, ns.sharedhosting.net, ns-sjc-1.indus.net, or ns-pao-1.indus.net.
Replace serverhosting.net with your own domain name below.
After you have verified the global root DNS servers delegate DNS servers for serverhosting.net correctly, use this test to query those DNS servers and the mapping they have for www to the correct IP address of the web server you have uploaded the contents to. The query also returns the primary mail exchange or MX server for the domain. This is the server that is configured to accept email under your own domain and distribute it into individual user's mailboxes. You may also query neutral DNS servers on the Internet to make sure the DNS mapping the authoritative DNS servers hold is globally propagated. In cases where you have requested us to update the www mapping, it may take up to two days for it to propagate across the Internet. You can however quickly verify below whether our own DNS servers have been updated.
In the form below, you can query one of the delegated DNS servers by replacing www.serverhosting.net with your own web site address.