Find Your Domain Registrar or DNS Hosting Provider

Summary: This article discusses how to identify your Domain Registrar and DNS Hosting Provider.

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Instructions

Affected Products:

  • Office 365

To set up a domain to Office 365, you must own a domain and change some of the DNS records for your domain. If you do not already own a domain, you can buy one from a domain name registrar.

Your domain name registrar usually, but not always, manages the DNS records for your domain. If you do not remember the domain name registrar where you registered your domain. Follow the steps here to find the registrar. If your registrar does not manage your DNS records, you have to find your DNS hosting provider so you can update your domain's records there.

  1. On the InterNICThis hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies. website in the Whois Search box, type your domain. (for example, Business Name.com)
  2. Select the Domain option, and then click Submit.
  3. On the Whois Search Results page, locate the Registrar. This entry lists the organization that provides the registrar service for your domain.

Whois Search Results
Figure 1: (English Only) Whois Search Results

  1. On the InterNIC This hyperlink is taking you to a website outside of Dell Technologies. website in the Whois Search box, type your domain. (for example, contoso.com)
  2. Select the Domain option, and then click Submit.
  3. On the Whois Search Results page, locate the Name Server.
  4. Copy the name server (NS) information that appears after the colon (:), and then paste it into the Search box at the top of the page. Select Nameserver, and then click Submit.

Whois Search Results
Figure 2: (English Only) Whois Search Results

Affected Products

Microsoft 365 from Dell

Products

Microsoft 365 from Dell
Article Properties
Article Number: 000184626
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2024
Version:  5
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