Enter a domain
Your device checks whether it already knows the matching IP address.
Why do I need nameservers?
A nameserver tells the internet where your domain's website, email and other online services are located.
What is DNS?
DNS stands for Domain Name System. It changes easy-to-remember names such as google.com into IP addresses that computers use to find the correct server.
When you enter a website address, your device first checks its local DNS cache. If it does not know the matching address, it sends a request to a DNS resolver.
The resolver searches the DNS hierarchy. It may contact a root server, the relevant top-level-domain server and finally the authoritative server that stores the domain's records.
How a DNS lookup works
Look up the address
If the answer is not cached, a DNS resolver searches the DNS hierarchy.
Receive the record
The authoritative nameserver returns the record for the requested service.
When LEO provides nameservers
Services hosted with LEO
LEO provides nameservers when your website, email or another online service is hosted with us. There is no ongoing nameserver charge beyond the once-off configuration fee.
Services hosted elsewhere
Ask your hosting provider for its primary and secondary nameservers, then include those details on the domain registration form. The once-off LEO configuration fee still applies.
Independent DNS providers
These organisations offer DNS services independently from LEO. Review their current terms and features before choosing one.
Register or host your domain
LEO can help connect your domain, website and email services.