Purchasing another domain to use may be too costly and impractical for some. One way to approach this problem is through utilizing Child Name Servers. Fortunately, Bluehost India users are capable of benefiting from it.
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It is a private labeled name server which is registered with the domain registry under your own domain name. An example of this is that if hostingdecisions.com/ is these sites own domain name then example.hostingdecisions.com/ would be an example of a CNS.
The next texts below will be the simple “How To’s” when it comes to CNS with Bluehost India.
Child Name Servers FAQs:
If you don’t have A CNS, then learn how to register one:
STEP 1: Go to the URL that gets you to the login screen of the cPanel account associated with your Bluehost account. Upon seeing the login screen, input the credentials and log in.
STEP 2: Look for the “Domain Registration” section and click on the aforementioned part of the article title “Child Name Servers”.
STEP 3: Wait until a new page loads in which you should look for the “Add a child name server” and input the necessary name of the new CNS you wanted to add.
Note: Make sure that you write down the new CNS correctly with the right domain name which is the domain name that you own.
If you already have a Child Name Server then learn how to modify it:
This is assuming that you already logged in into your Bluehost India Account
STEP 1: Look for the “Domain Registration” section and click on the aforementioned part of the article title “Child Name Servers”.
STEP 2: From the Host Name text box you can change the new hostname you’d like to assign. You can also do the same for the IP address through the IP Address text box as well. Click save after the change you made.
Note: Unfortunately if you have an .AU domain names then you cannot modify your CNS. The only deletion is available, so you may want to make sure that you correctly created it with the details you wanted.
If you already have a Child Name Server and for some reason, you wanted to delete it:
The same as the two previous instructions assume that you already sign in.
STEP 1: Look for the “Domain Registration” section and click on the aforementioned part of the article title “Child Name Servers”.
STEP 2: Once the page loads simply locate the “delete” link next to the CNS that you’d wish to remove.
Note: That is a permanent deletion of the CNS so make sure you really want to delete the child name server. And any child name server under .ES and .UK domain cannot be deleted so you need to be extra careful about it.
Conclusion
CNS can be quite useful in some situations and as we can see it isn’t as really difficult to use this feature available for BlueHost India users. Of course, before adding a new CNS, it may be wise to make sure that the new child name server you added is assumed. In order for you to have no changes as modification and deletion of child name servers may have some restrictions. And that is all the basics of Child Name Servers with Bluehost India.
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