January 18, 2007     (Updated from our Oct. 8, 2004 article)

A good example would be: ns1.yournameserver.com and ns2.yournameserver.com or any similar variation. Name servers ensure the Internet that there are no errors and that the desired website is being displayed when you type its domain name in your browser.

Name servers simply convert domain names into numbers (IP addresses) that Web servers can understand. As you might expect, the number of name servers is growing constantly, since the Internet is expanding rapidly.

At your domain name registrar, you need to change your old name servers to the new ones, provided to you by your new Web hosting company. Once you have made the changes, it can take anywhere from 24 to 48 hours for the modifications to become effective. In many cases, it might take less than 24 hours. Just remember that not all domain registrars are created equally. Some work a lot faster than others.

Prevention always pays
Now you understand why you need to open the other account first and make sure your files are already sitting on your new server. Failing to do that would cause you needless downtime, which, as you can see, is very easy to prevent. If a search engine robot such as Googlebot or Yahoo’s Slurp would come to spider your site, either at the old or the new IP address, it would not find any difference and would simply proceed with the indexing of your site, if the above steps were done correctly.

Once a whole week has passed, and once you are satisfied that the move went smoothly and that there were no complications, only then is it safe to contact your old hosting provider and ask them to close the account.

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