Nameservers are the servers that hold the authoritative DNS records for a domain. Setting a domain’s nameservers decides who answers questions about it — and therefore where you manage its records.
Where they’re set
At your domain registrar. This is the one DNS setting that isn’t changed at your host, because the registry needs to know where to send lookups before your host is involved.
Traxio’s nameservers
ns1.traxio.co.ukns2.traxio.co.ukns3.traxio.co.uk
Multiple nameservers provide redundancy: if one can’t be reached, resolvers ask another.
What changes when you switch
Pointing a domain at new nameservers means the records on those nameservers become live, and records held at the old provider stop being used, all at once. That’s why email can stop after a switch if its records weren’t recreated. Email stopped working after changing nameservers
With Traxio nameservers
- Your website,
www,mailand subdomain records are created automatically - You edit records in Account Manager then DNS Management
- SSL certificates issue without further setup
Common confusion
Nameservers aren’t where your website is — they’re who says where your website is. Nameservers vs DNS records: what’s the difference?
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