How to Find your Domain Nameservers

How to Find your Domain Nameservers

How to Find your Domain Nameservers

By | January 10, 2025

Think of Domain Nameservers as directional signs that guide you to the provider responsible for managing your domain’s DNS settings. Understanding this information is essential for knowing where to update your domain’s DNS records.

We will Discuss few basics and get you covered with the main topic of “How to Check your Domain Nameservers“.

 

What is Nameserver?

First thing you do is purchase a domain. You can use the domain for any purpose including that of building the website. Once purchased, you need to host the domain with any of web hosting provider to get the nameserver which is necessary to find the hosting server when any of the users search the website name into the browser.

In simple terms, your domain name will act or convert as website name i.e. URL (https://seekahost.com) only when you host and update the hosting nameserver in your domain. If there is no nameserver or IP address or DNS Records updated for hosting server, then the domain will remain as domain name instead of acting as website name.

Using the help of DNS servers, Nameserver helps the browser to identify the exact location of the hosting server where the website content is stored to retrieve whenever there is a request initiated from the browser by the users. Only if there is any issue with the browser like cache, network issue, etc or issue with hosting server like IP block, server down, etc will bring the website down if a user search in the browser.

 

Check Whois for Domain Nameservers:

Step 1: Search any third party whois tool for public database checking and search your domain name.

Domain Nameserver Whois

Here the nameserver are SeekaHost Domain nameservers as below,

ns1.systemdns.com
ns2.systemdns.com
ns3.systemdns.com

Domain Nameservers

 

You can find this nameserver in your domain nameservers section by choosing the option “Use Default Nameserver” in the seekahost client area. If you are using any of our hosting plans and updated the hosting nameserver in the domain, then Choose the option “Use Custom Nameservers” and then modify the updated nameservers.

NOTE: Some of the TLD have their own restriction to show complete information in WHOIS. 

Using Custom Domain Nameservers:

If you update the private nameserver or any other custom nameserver of the hosting provider in the domain nameservers section, then your complete DNS management control goes to Hosting DNS management and only the records updated there will propagate over the internet.

If you need support managing the DNS records, then you can contact the respective support team for help.

 

Additional Details Get on Whois:

1. Registered On – Date when the domain is registered. (For Expired Domain it doesn’t count when looking for the age of the domain)

2. Expires On – The date when the domain expires but either will be in a grace period or redemption period after that based on the TLD.

3. Updated On – Date when there is anything modified on the domain.

4. Status – It shows what status or restrictions are placed on the domain currently to make any function on that. If the status is like

pendingDelete and redemptionPeriod -> Most probable cannot recover domain.

serverHold and clientHold -> Only after this status has been lifted, you can access the domain or website connected to it.

NOTE: The Domain Nameservers or DNS records will not propagate if the domain is under the above status hold. 

5. Registrant Contact – It will display the contact details by which the domain is registered by the registrant. If ID protection is enabled, the details will be replaced with the registrar’s contact information.

Hope this information helps you to find the nameserver pointing to your domains.