Implementing 3rd level domain name hosting

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Say, you have a 2nd level domain name of your home town: my-town.us and you want to give away 3rd level domain names (like the-barber.my-town.us) automatically and for free to anyone requested (i.e. implement 3rd level domain hosting). How would you go about implementing it?

I thought about using wildcard DNS record *.my-town.us to point to a web app, which would make a redirect based on requested url. But that would not be any good, because redirect will, well, redirect instead of using the desired domain the-barber.my-town.us.

Celada · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-16 13:02:43Z

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You should delegate subdomains, just like the domain my-town.us was delegated to you.

Just like you supplied contact information and a list of nameservers when you registered my-town.us, they should supply contact information and a list of nameservers to you. You then list these nameservers as NS records in the parent zone.

answered Jun 16, 2013 at 13:02

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Celada Over a year ago

You just create NS records for the subdomain in your my-town.us zone file. For example, the-barber IN NS their.nameserver.example.com.. It's really that simple.

Vladimir Keleshev Over a year ago

I guess, that means I need

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