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Im not sure if I made this question right...

Can a Webhosting accept 2 different nameservers to point to 2 domain names?

Example if I have

Domain1.com and Domain2.com

and Webhost

For Domain1.com :

n1.webhost.com
n2.webhost.com

For Domain2.com :

n3.webhost.com
n4.webhost.com

Is this possible?
 
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If I understand correctly (please excuse my stupidity if not) you're asking if a host can have 2 pairs of different nameservers for two domains?

If that's it, then yes, a host can have many nameservers for different IPs and servers.
 
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yes you understood me right. Thanks!

But here is my case... I registered my host at Godaddy.. But they gave me only 2 nameservers.. n1.webhost.com and n2.webhost.com... and this is pointed to 1 domain only

So my followup question is : How will I add another domain to point to the same host?

Is this possible with my case?
 
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So you've bought hosting for one domain and you have that domain pointed to the nameservers that your hosting company provided, right?

Now, you're asking if one can have another domain on the same host? If that's the case, then you'll have to check with your host as to whether they allow multiple domain hosting (or addon domains). If they do, just point the other domain to those same nameservers.
 
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Technically, if there were no shortage of IP's, every server would have an individual IP number and be a separate piece of hardware. Unfortunately, the workaround for that has been virtual servers that share IP numbers, and software to allow multiple hosts (servers) on a single computer. But in a technical way, you are talking about 6 different servers (or virtual servers). your base second level domains domain1.com and domain2.com are two different servers. Each subdomain (ns1, ns2, ns3, ns4) used as a nameserver, is technically a different server even if only virtual.

A nameserer (ie. ns1) can have multilple domains or subdomains in it's database, and different nameservers can have the same names in their nameserver database for mirroring or redundancy. Most hosts only supply 2 nameservers which are generally on different computers for redundancy. You can use third party nameservers for extra redundancy as well. granitecanyon is a free DNS server, and zoneedit.com also has both free and paid nameserver services. that could be used for your ns3 and ns4 third level nameserver domains.

Usually with a hosting account, you could only designate one domain as your nameserver with all domains using those nameservers. You might need to buy a second host account to be another nameserver. However, it would probably still be on the same two pieces of computer hardware, so there would be no redundancy or reason to do so. (Example their computer1 would be designated as ns1.domain1.com and ns1.domain2.com and the other physical computer2 would be ns2.domain1.com and ns2.domain2.com). Therefore if computer 1 went out, the first nameserver for both domains would be out since they use the same hardware. For redundancy, all nameservers should be on separate computer hardware. For even better redundancy, they should be in different physical locations served by different backbone providers.
 
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its simple..you can as many domains name to the same parking. No problems.they will auto arange everything needed

my hundred names are all pointed to one parking place
 
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so could i do like

ns1.domainhop.com
ns2.domainhop.com

ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com

??
 
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Dwayne said:
so could i do like

ns1.domainhop.com
ns2.domainhop.com

ns1.sedoparking.com
ns2.sedoparking.com

??

If you did that, no one would ever be taken to sedoparking.com unless both the domainhop nameservers were down at the same time, or the servers were extremely busy or not responding. But, yes, if the first two failed, your site would not be seen as down, but traffic routed to sedoparking.com.
 
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