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Your Maxinodes nameservers

Maxim Tsitsejev
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Applies to: All plans.

Your Maxinodes nameservers are ns1.maxinodes.com and ns2.maxinodes.com. Set both of these at whatever registrar holds your domain, and your domain will start using Maxinodes for DNS.

The nameservers to set

Nameserver Value
Nameserver 1 ns1.maxinodes.com
Nameserver 2 ns2.maxinodes.com

A few things to know:

  • These are the real, current nameservers for every Maxinodes-hosted domain. If you were given different nameserver names in the past, replace them with the two values above.
  • Enter them exactly as shown, with no trailing dots, spaces, or extra text. Most registrars accept them in either order.
  • Add both. A single nameserver is not enough and can cause intermittent failures.

What these nameservers are for

Your nameservers tell the internet who answers DNS questions for your domain — for example, which server your website lives on, and where your email should go.

  • These are our own nameservers, running on a global anycast DNS network. When you order hosting, we automatically create a DNS zone for your domain on them.
  • Once your domain points at them, you manage your DNS records (A, CNAME, MX, TXT and so on) in the client area at my.maxinodes.com — not in the cPanel zone editor.
  • The records we set up point your site at our hosting node. Customer sites are served over both IPv4 and IPv6 (dual-stack): we create A records pointing at 185.185.49.198 and AAAA records pointing at 2a00:7c80:0:286:c::10, for your domain, www, cpanel and ftp.
  • A new hosting zone also gets the records for the mailboxes included with your plan: an MX record to mx.maxinodes.com, mail, webmail, autoconfig and autodiscover on the same addresses, and the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records that authenticate your mail. If your domain's mail is already with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or another outside provider, we copy its existing mail records instead.

Note: Your email goes wherever your MX record points: to the mailboxes included with your hosting plan (mx.maxinodes.com), or to Professional Email (Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) if you need shared calendars, Teams or shared drives. Either way, the mail records live in the same client-area DNS manager. If your old web host runs your email, tell us before you switch nameservers or cancel the old hosting: depending on how that host set up your mail, the switch can move incoming mail here at once. We check which case applies and move your mailboxes and mail with you, free.

How to confirm they have taken effect

Nameserver changes are made at your registrar and can take time to spread across the internet (usually a few minutes to a few hours, occasionally up to 24–48 hours).

To check the current nameservers for your domain, use any of these:

  1. A public "WHOIS" or "DNS lookup" website — search your domain and look at the listed nameservers.
  2. A terminal command on your own computer:
    • macOS / Linux: dig NS yourdomain.com +short
    • Windows: nslookup -type=ns yourdomain.com
  3. The My Domains section of your client area, if the domain is registered with us.

Result: When the lookup returns ns1.maxinodes.com and ns2.maxinodes.com, your domain is using Maxinodes nameservers and the change is live.

If the lookup still shows your old nameservers after a few hours, recheck that you saved both values at your registrar exactly as written, then allow more time for the change to spread.

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