Nameserver change! What am I doing?

[Shep]

Had an old website for years, the original designer went out of business and the site slowly but surely went out of date due to lack of access.

We already had our domain names registered with an ISP

Along comes Yell.com offering a package linked through their business directory, they design a website, maintain it and give it a 'prescence' using keywords etc, all at a very reasonable price

After a bit of two'ing and fro'ing the site is pretty much ready to run (it is very simple)

Now i need it to be accessed from my domain name, i've been told to contact the company its registered with to change the Nameserver address, i've filled in the form and faxed it off, but have no idea what i've done, have i just rerouted everything and the domain name remains registered with Legend as its always been?

Shep

 

[Spikehammer]

Yes. In effect what the email or form you have sent is doing is instructing the current hosts, for example ABC Hosting, who's nameservers are say abc123.ns and abc345.ns to your new hosts XYZ Hosting who's servers are xyz123.ns and xyz345.ns. It can take a couple of days for the domain to resolve so you may see a 'parked' page for a while.

 

[shugie]

If the form was a request to Legend to change the nameserver records for your account then that is all they should do. That makes requests for your website go to the new address rather than the one they host for you.

Your old website is no longer visible, so something must be happening now.