Quick Question about Hosting/NameServers for my Tech Savvy Forum Friends (1)
Quick Question about Hosting/NameServers for my Tech Savvy Forum Friends
I'm not the most tech savvy so was hoping someone of you in here who are way smarter than me could assist.
On all of my domains, the name server is ns1.mydomainname.com
If I pulled the whois info on a domain, and the name server is hns1.hostingcompany.com, does that mean that the site content is being published by hostingcompany.com? or are there alternate explanations?
I reverse IP looked up the domain and there is not a single other domain listed on that IP so I believe that would make it a dedicated or at least not shared hosting which would have other sites listed?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that make it extremely likely that it is the hosting company that is controlling / publishing the content on that site? I've checked the whois info on quite a few other domains and the name servers are all ns1.someuniquedomain.com, none of them are ns.hostingcompany.com.
Is there some sort of situation or explanation where the domain would still be hosted on a hosting company's name servers? (wouldn't the person then need permission / access to publish content there?)
Also, given that no other domains are showing up on the reverse ip lookup, it would appear that this isn't shared hosting being offered by the hosting company?
Again I'm not very tech savvy at all so please don't rip me a new one with responses if I was incorrect on anything here, just trying to get some answers.
Thanks!
**EDIT -- Tijn helped me figure everything out, huge props to him 
man is genius
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