What is Nameservers?
The short answer
Nameservers are the servers that hold a domain's DNS records; changing them at the registrar hands control of all the domain's DNS to another provider.
Nameservers, explained
Point nameservers at a provider only if you mean to manage every record there, including email.
Questions people ask about Nameservers
What is Nameservers?
Nameservers are the servers that hold a domain's DNS records; changing them at the registrar hands control of all the domain's DNS to another provider.
Related terms
DNS is the internet's address book: it translates a domain name like example.com into the IP address of the server that hosts the site.
Domain registrarA domain registrar is an accredited company that sells and manages domain name registrations.
DeployTo deploy is to publish a new version of a website to its host so visitors see it; modern hosts deploy automatically when code is pushed to Git.
CI/CDCI/CD is automation that checks and ships code: continuous integration runs builds and tests on every change, and continuous deployment releases what passes.
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