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Creative/Exceptional NameServer Prefix
Mahfuz_SS_EHL
Host Rep, Veteran
in Help
Hi,
NameServer is one of the most talked technical term in Hosting Industry specially in DNS Issues, Pointing A Domain etc.
Everyone simply uses "ns1.example.com" & "ns2.example.com"
Any Creative Suggestion on the NameServer Prefix (I mean HostName Prefix e.g. ns1, ns2 etc) ??
What prefix you use as your NameServer ?? :-D
Thanks,
Mahfuz.
Comments
Some hosts I have worked with used Greek Gods etc as the names.
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things"
My cat names (emeng, bebo, poci, etc) :-D
Emeng.example.com
I also noticed it.
thisaintyomamasdns.example.com - I'd dig that
To host some Govt. Owned Corporate Site, what can be the prefix ???
corporate/special/secured/govt/redundant !
You can use the name of planets.
Some domain registrars only allow things like dns1 or ns, so make sure to have alternatives!
Are names of Pokemon out of the question?
Use racial slurs.
Popcorn1.domain.com
vanessa-hudgens.domain.com
katy-perry.domain.com
emma-watson.domain.com
You got the idea...
the-nsa-is-watching.domain.tld
i knew someone used city names in Saudi Arabia. nice to connect them to islam history.
Not sure if it was @Jar or @ryanarp's idea, but Catalyst had a node named Taylor Swift.
I currently use Futurama characters, but TaylorSwift, CharliXCX, etc may be the next set.
I claim Taylor Swift idea. The notifications for reboots were pretty amazing. Taylor Swift is going down, she will be back up soon.
There's no benefit from giving nameservers weird/vanity names, really. All it really does is cause confusion. Let's say you get a monitoring alert for server "taylorswift.domain.com" - are you going to know instantly that it's your NS? Maybe, if you only have a few servers, but once you get past a handful of servers, it just becomes an annoyance.
What record was playing while doing maintenance on the node? I'd probably go with "I Knew You Were Trouble"
Why not use ns1, ns2 ? Is there problem?
NS prefixes are really not the place to get creative or "exceptional", they should be ns1/ns2/nsX. However the actual hostnames of the boxes serving as NSes absolutely do not have to follow that, especially if a box does more than just NS (and it most likely would, since just a nameserver is not a demanding task).
I can't think of anyone who does creative names for NS. They were referencing node names when taking about T Swift. Which isn't confusing when same name is seen in control panels. Our name servers are generic NS1 NS2 and so forth.
Well there's cloudflare.
I think the explanation for that is simple: it's easier to mistype a number than a complete word. And at worst, there will be little to no probability on that typo word being another of their nameservers.
sorry.domain.tld
but.domain.tld
iloveu.domain.tld
or using different tld like dan
that is the only thing that actually makes sense
nsa.domain.tld
nsb.domain.tld
I've been using Japanese names too btw
2 or 3 is fine, but 8 is just overdoing it. (Well, even registering and paying for all those domains is, too)