Adding NS Records for a Subdomain

Adding NS records for a subdomain will cause the subdomain to resolve with the configured name servers instead of the NS records at the zone’s apex.

Add NS records for Subdomain

Verifying the NS records are set up correctly
  1. Verify that your domain is delegated to DNSimple
  2. Verify the NS records are set up and we resolve them dig NS
  3. Verify the trace actually goes to the domain dig +trace
  4. Verify the TARGET NS are set up correctly dig

Name server propagation

It may take up to 24 hours for a name server change to propagate. The whois response is a good way to determine if the changes have been submitted properly.