Apply for primary nameserver

Maintain your web, email and DNS presence by opting for our primary nameserver service.

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Additional information

Where CIDR stands for classless inter-domain routing.

For authentication purposes the DNS admin portal requires the initial access to be made from an IPv4 address or IPv4 address range from within your Janet allocated IP address block.

  1. Please provide an IPv4 address or range from your Janet allocated IPv4 address block, no larger than a /24, from which your initial access will be made
  2. If additional IPv4 addresses or IPv4 address ranges are required to access your DNS admin portal, please list up to a maximum of three additional IPv4 addresses or IPv4 address ranges

Enter domain(s) to be published by the Janet nameserver. Followed by one of the options below for each domain (eg example.ac.uk – 1):

  1. This domain is already using a Janet Network secondary name server
  2. Allow Jisc to transfer the DNS zone file from one of the present nameservers for this domain
  3. Can provide a valid zone file that can be read directly by a BIND name server
  4. Cannot provide information by any of the above methods, you will need to enter resource records via the web portal
  5. Do not know the answer to the above and require more advice

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Privacy notice

The information above is needed for us to set up this hosted internet service. We’ll use it, as described in our standard privacy notice, to provide the service you’ve requested, manage it and to identify problems or ways to make the service better. We’ll keep the information until we are told that you are no longer the representative for your organisation, or until your organisation no longer wishes Jisc to host the service.