I purchased private registration but my domain records still shows the DNS's. why?!

12 years ago

how can the DNS be private?

if you are using shared DNS for all your sites it is reverse trackable if any of the sites are not hidden with privacy.

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CDarklock

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

Can someone explain why a domain's DNS records can still be seen although it has private registration?

Because email uses DNS servers to find mail exchangers and trace return paths. If your DNS records were concealed, your domain could neither send nor receive email.

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athenistic

12 years ago

Originally Posted by CDarklock

Because email uses DNS servers to find mail exchangers and trace return paths. If your DNS records were concealed, your domain could neither send nor receive email.

.. or your website, FTP and everything else related to your hosting space.

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wizzard74

12 years ago

You are paying for the privilege of hiding your name and address, nothing else.

As already pointed out, you cannot hide your DNS entries.

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sam770

12 years ago

I host with hostgator and the domains are on godaddy
I have a chat with hostgator agent and thats what he told me:

(9:46:30pm)Stanley T.:Quite alright, Ziv. One way I know godaddy can sort of make those records 'private' is to go through the domaincontrol nameservers but point A records to us.
(9:47:46pm)Sam:what does it means?A records?
(9:48:07pm)Stanley T.:You would point a special A record to the IP of your cPanel. This would effectively direct the domain from godaddy to us. You would also have to do it individually for MX records for mail.
(9:48:16pm)Stanley T.:A records are DNS records for IP addresses.

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Matt Ward

12 years ago

What difference does it makes if you have your DNS showing, especially if you're using something like GoDaddy or HostGator DNS?

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sam770

12 years ago

guys
I just saw this solution: [SOLVED] How can i hide my DNS for my domain name? - Tech Support Guy Forums
What do you think?
Anyone tried that?

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wizzard74

12 years ago

I don't see what your big hang up is about concealing your DNS nameservers, you will find that there will probably be hundreds of websites using those DNS servers, as long as your contact details aren't on show, I don't see the problem.

Don't try and complicate things for the sake of your DNS servers showing, you cannot be individually identified by them.

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sam770

12 years ago

Richard,
My time is valuable!
If I am looking for a solution its probably because I really need it...
I have no time to waste on non important stuff

Originally Posted by wizzard74

I don't see what your big hang up is about concealing your DNS nameservers, you will find that there will probably be hundreds of websites using those DNS servers, as long as your contact details aren't on show, I don't see the problem.

Don't try and complicate things for the sake of your DNS servers showing, you cannot be individually identified by them.

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wizzard74 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

Richard,
My time is valuable!
If I am looking for a solution its probably because I really need it...
I have no time to waste on non important stuff

Surely growing your business is more important
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theimdude

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

Richard,
My time is valuable!
If I am looking for a solution its probably because I really need it...
I have no time to waste on non important stuff

Not sure why you bother but you can hide the name severs by adding private nameservers to you domain but if you do a reverse dns you will find the host anyway.

Here how it is done but if you battle to understand what a "a record" is then not sure if you will catch this.

1) Login to you godaddy account
2) Select you domain in the domains panel
3) Open the selected domain
4) Scroll down to the bottom to "host summary" and click on add
5) Add your name sever prefix "ns1"
6) enter your domain ip
7) Add your 2nd name server prefix "ns2"
8) enter your domain ip (same as above will work)
9) Scroll back up and enter your new nameservers ns1. yourdomainname .com and ns2 . yourdomainname .com
10) Wait 24 hours for change to take place and you will have private name servers

So when somebody do a name server check on your domain it will not show ns1 .hostgator .com but ns1 . yourdomainname .com

Hope that helps

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revstan

12 years ago

Originally Posted by theimdude

Not sure why you bother but you can hide the name severs by adding private nameservers to you domain but if you do a reverse dns you will find the host anyway.

Here how it is done but if you battle to understand what a "a record" is then not sure if you will catch this.

1) Login to you godaddy account
2) Select you domain in the domains panel
3) Open the selected domain
4) Scroll down to the bottom to "host summary" and click on add
5) Add your name sever prefix "ns1"
6) enter your domain ip
7) Add your 2nd name server prefix "ns2"
8) enter your domain ip (same as above will work)
9) Scroll back up and enter your new nameservers ns1. yourdomainname .com and ns2 . yourdomainname .com
10) Wait 24 hours for change to take place and you will have private name servers

So when somebody do a name server check on your domain it will not show ns1 .hostgator .com but ns1 . yourdomainname .com

Hope that helps

Thanks for this, was forgotten how it worked.

Simple Stan

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theimdude 12 years ago

Originally Posted by revstan

Thanks for this, was forgotten how it worked.

Simple Stan

Actually you might have to ask you host to add private nameservers to you domain or might have to edit the dns zone if you have access. I do then when I setup a reseller hosting account and have never bothered to do it for a single domain but I suppose it will look fancy if you name servers match your domain.

Not sure who will look at it to take notice unless you want to impress your friends and tell them you have a dedi
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sam770

12 years ago

Thank you SOOOOO much
Thats exactly what I was looking for
Just one question: what do you mean by "Not sure why you bother but you can hide the name severs by adding private nameservers to you domain but if you do a reverse dns you will find the host anyway"?
How?

Originally Posted by theimdude

Not sure why you bother but you can hide the name severs by adding private nameservers to you domain but if you do a reverse dns you will find the host anyway.

Here how it is done but if you battle to understand what a "a record" is then not sure if you will catch this.

1) Login to you godaddy account
2) Select you domain in the domains panel
3) Open the selected domain
4) Scroll down to the bottom to "host summary" and click on add
5) Add your name sever prefix "ns1"
6) enter your domain ip
7) Add your 2nd name server prefix "ns2"
8) enter your domain ip (same as above will work)
9) Scroll back up and enter your new nameservers ns1. yourdomainname .com and ns2 . yourdomainname .com
10) Wait 24 hours for change to take place and you will have private name servers

So when somebody do a name server check on your domain it will not show ns1 .hostgator .com but ns1 . yourdomainname .com

Hope that helps

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theimdude

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

Thank you SOOOOO much
Thats exactly what I was looking for
Just one question: what do you mean by "Not sure why you bother but you can hide the name severs by adding private nameservers to you domain but if you do a reverse dns you will find the host anyway"?
How?

Just like I said, you can have private nameservers but if you do a reverse dns you will get who the host is. I have my own vps using the domain say mydomain.com. Now I have a reseller account on there ptlhosting.com with private nameservers ns1 & ns2.ptlhosting.com like you want. Now if I want to findout where and who the "real" host is then I do a reverse dns by using the ip address. That will bypass your private name servers and show my main domain which is host.mydomain.com

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sam770

12 years ago

Yes, but thats the all trick, no?
That I can have BOTH fake DNS and IP associate with it, so that if people do reverse dns they will get to the IP associate with the fake dns and not with the real ip (of my host).
Did I miss something?

Originally Posted by theimdude

Now if I want to findout where and who the "real" host is then I do a reverse dns by using the ip address.

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theimdude

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

Yes, but thats the all trick, no?
That I can have BOTH fake DNS and IP associate with it, so that if people do reverse dns they will get to the IP associate with the fake dns and not with the real ip (of my host).
Did I miss something?

There is no such thing as fake dns. It is private dns. The ip if you use reverse dns will resolve to the servers host address which if your host is using the name of the company there is nothing you can do about it like if hostgator which I think they do use there name for the server hostname. I don't host with them so not sure.

The only way you are really going to hide yourself is if you get a vps or dedicated server as there you setup the hostname and control it yourself. Bear in mind that ip will be assigned to your data center where you server is so if somebody really want to find you they can via the data center but that is not so easy unless it is the FBI

Who you trying to hide from?

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sam770

12 years ago

First thanks for the clear explanations, I really appreciate that.
Secondly, the reason I am trying to hide dns info from domain is because I am dominant in a profitable niche (I have 4 sites on that niche) and I prefer that my competitor will not easily spy on my activity.
Once they know the dns of one site they can easily find the others.
I think that the best solution will be a combination of private registration to all domains plus hosting each site on a different vps/shared so that they will not be on the same server.
BTW that niche has nothing to do with loyalwriter or content

Originally Posted by theimdude

There is no such thing as fake dns. It is private dns. The ip if you use reverse dns will resolve to the servers host address which if you host is using the name of the company there is nothing you can do about it like if hostgator which I think they do use there name for the server hostname. I don't host with them so not sure.

The only way you are really going to hide yourself is if you get a vps or dedicated server as there you setup the hostname and control ot yourself. Bear in mind that ip will be assigned to your data center where you server is so if somebody really want to find you the can via the data center but that is not so easy unless it is the FBI

Who you trying to hide from?

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theimdude

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sam770

First thanks for the clear explanations, I really appreciate that.
Secondly, the reason I am trying to hide dns info from domain is because I am dominant in a profitable niche (I have 4 sites on that niche) and I prefer that my competitor will not easily spy on my activity.
Once they know the dns of one site they can easily find the others.
I think that the best solution will be a combination of private registration to all domains plus hosting each site on a different vps/shared so that they will not be on the same server.
BTW that niche has nothing to do with loyalwriter or content

I was using that domain to show you how you can find the host. For what you want to do there is no need to then do a vps just get 4 different shared hosting accounts and do a private reg and if you want to do the private nameservers you can do that but not really needed.

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sam770

12 years ago

vps is for the speed and the cpu resources

Originally Posted by theimdude

I was using that domain to show you how you can find the host. For what you want to do there is no need to then do a vps just get 4 different shared hosting accounts and do a private reg and if you want to do the private nameservers you can do that but not really needed.

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Shoot

12 years ago

aka he wants to hide the rest of his sites he has on the same DNS's.

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theimdude

12 years ago

If you goto this website Reverse DNS Lookup and enter your ip for your website you will see what I mean.

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shuttercraft

12 years ago

Why do you want to hide the DNS so bad?

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theimdude

12 years ago

Here is the results for your ip that is used in the domain in your signature

50.22.71.32 resolves to
"ns2720.hostgator.com"
Top Level Domain: "hostgator.com"

so even if you add ns1.loyalwriter.com and ns2.loyalwriter.com it will always resolve to ns2720.hostgator.com if you do a reverse dns

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theimdude

12 years ago

This conclude our lesson on how you cannot hide your website location

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theimdude

12 years ago

Here is a easy solution for you. Get SEO hosting as this for $16 give you 10 cclass ip's that you can easily setup private nameservers and they cannot be linked to each other.
You can also have 10 separate cpanel account with addon domains for each.

You can get the discount from this forum. I am not related to them and about to signup with them as they seem to be reliable. This saves you having to work with 4 different hosting companies

Here is the link via webhostingtalk

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I purchased private registration but my domain records still shows the DNS's. why?!

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