Domain

All domain names have a WHOIS listing, that goes into a database of all the registered domains and all the registrant information such as address and contact details associated with a domain. This information on WHOIS is available to everyone over the Internet. Without Privacy Protection, all your data is available to the public. Thus, Domain Privacy Protection is a service that hides all your contact information from the public on WHOIS listing. Privacy Protection is a service that’s available when you purchase your domain name. It is up to you the user to enable or disable it. You can purchase it, at the time of Transferring or Registering your domain name or at any other point in time as long as your domain name is valid. In fact, if you even purchase an SSL certificate for your domain, depending on your hosting provider you may or may not need not disable your WHOIS privacy temporarily though earlier it was compulsory to do so.

Domain Naming Service (DNS) establishes the correspondence between the domain name of your site (e.g: giraffecloud.com) and the IP address where it is hosted (e.g: 213.244.184.122) on the Internet. A DNS server is a machine which makes this correspondence. To be active on the Internet, a domain name must have at least one DNS server. However, it is advised, and sometimes mandatory, to have two or more DNS servers to take advantage of redundancy (if one of the servers becomes unavailable), thus ensuring permanent availability of a domain name.

Nameservers are a fundamental part of the Domain Name System. Nameserver is a server on the Internet specialized in handling queries regarding the location of the domain name’s various services. In easy words, name servers define your domain’s current DNS provider.