When you registered your domain you had to tell your registrar where to find the nameservers for your new domain. If you change your nameservers, tell your registrar via their preferred channel (e-mail or Web page, e.g.) and "network magic" will eventually cause your new nameservers to be recognized by the world. I think the archives from this list have several mentions of the timeline to follow in doing this, most of them having to do with changing your TTL before changing your nameservers, thus causing the propagation of new information to occur more expeditiously. "Mark Olbert" on 10/16/2000 09:16:15 PM Please respond to mark@arcabama.com To: "'Mathias K -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- örber'" , comp-protocols-dns-bind@moderators.isc.org cc: Subject: RE: Propagation of DNS Changes -- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar -- >> I don't have a parent nameserver. At least, not one I'm aware of. I >Sure you have. If your domain is "somedomain.com.au", then >"com.au" is your parent domain (and its nameservers your parent >nameservers, ie those holding the delegation to for your domain). >If ever you change the nameservers for your domain, you will need to >inform your parent to change the delegation too. Okay, I think I see. My domain is arcabama.com, which would make my parent domain 'com'. So if I change the nameserver for my domain I'd have to notify, what, the root DNS for the .com domain? I presume this happened originally when I registered my domain with InterNIC last year? - Mark