Domain Name Management Services

News : Name Servers Report for Owned Domains by Namestead

Namestead extends reporting capabilities to reveal domain name/name server relationships for large numbers of domain names in a domain name portfolio.

Namestead� now offers domain administrators reporting options to summarize name server configurations for every domain name under management.

When managing hundreds or even thousands of domain names it is often easy to overlook a domain name which has not been configured properly with the correct nameserver details.

Domain names often become populated with incorrect or outdated name server details while moving websites from one host to another.

During a website move, any of the following can occur:

• Data entry errors with the probability for making a typo increases as the size of the domain portfolio increases
• An oversight caused by exceptional circumstances related to domain names with unusual hosting requirements
• Technical difficulties whereby one or more name server update requests fail

Business Impact

Domain administration is considered a cost center in many corporate environments or a profit center if the domain administrator is providing billable services to third parties. If a domain name is configured with the wrong name server settings, then the domain name will not resolve correctly. Web surfers will experience HTTP 404 error messages and businesses, not only lose money, but also risk damage to their corporate image every day the website is out of service.

In light of this, domain administrators are expected to effectively manage the association between domain names and their name servers.

However when a domain administrator is tasked with managing a large portfolio of domain names, errors and omissions are possible.

On the other hand, with the right tools, small teams of domain name administrators can successfully manage hundreds or even thousands of domain names with efficiency and precision.

The secret lies in automation.

Namestead� provides domain name management services for domain name administrators with large domain portfolios consisting of hundreds or even thousands of domain names.

How it Works

Namestead categorizes each owned domain name by nameserver domain and then further groups domain names by name server host. Namestead then generates the report with embedded hyperlinks to provide domain name administrators with an option to explore the detailed relationship between owned domain names and their name server assignments. See the sample of Namestead's Name Servers Report for Owned Domains on the right side-bar.

To get started generating a name server report for owned domain names, domain name porfolio managers should log in to the Namestead control panel and select "View Statistics" from the "Service Management" drop down menu.

If you are not already a Namestead member, sign up now and automatically keep track of your owned, wanted and competitor domain names.

Regards,
Namestead Staff

Published on January 16, 2010