There are several conditions
that are required for the domain name to be properly registered
and accessible from the Internet:
- The domain name has to be assigned to an IP address;
- The domain name has to be registered with the Name Servers
that "know" what IP address this domain name resolves to;
- The domain name has to be registered with the appropriate
Network Information Center (NIC) or Domain Authoritiy that keeps
the database record of the domain ownership and the Name Servers
that maintain domain's IP record.
When someone requests a connection to a certain domain, DNS servers
look-up the corresponding domain names authority for the requested
top level domain (Internic for .com, .net, .org, .edu; other authorities
for other TLD - top level domains). Internic then responds by telling
which Name Servers this domain name is registered with (for the
domains that we host it is ns1.UCVHost.net, ns2.UCVHost.net).
The request then goes to the Name Servers per Internic reply
and the Name Servers respond with the actual IP address for that
domain name. Then the browser establishes a connection with the
reported IP address.
It is imperative that the Name Servers listed in the domain
record are configured to answer questions about the domain name
and resolve the name to various addresses in different contexts.
Otherwise, the domain name will not work.
If you set up your account with UCVHost Name Servers, you
can control all aspects of your domain names and addresses