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Domains

The Domains section of the NetActuate portal provides authoritative DNS hosting for your domains at no additional cost. Navigate to Networking → Domains in the portal to access two tabs: DNS Zones and Secondary DNS.

DNS Zones​

The DNS Zones tab is where you create and manage authoritative DNS zones. Each zone displays its configuration details:

  • Type — Primary or Secondary
  • Hostmaster — administrative contact email for the zone
  • Serial Number — incremented with each zone update
  • Refresh, Retry, Expiry — SOA timing parameters
  • Default TTL — time-to-live applied to new records
  • Records — count of DNS records in the zone
  • Nameservers — assigned NetActuate nameservers

Supported record types: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, PTR, SPF, SRV, and TXT.

For step-by-step instructions on creating zones and managing records, see the How-To Guide.

Secondary DNS​

The Secondary DNS tab lets you configure NetActuate as a slave DNS provider. NetActuate will pull zone data from your primary (hidden or public) nameserver using AXFR zone transfers, providing geographic redundancy for your DNS at no cost.

For setup instructions, see the Secondary DNS guide.

Nameservers​

Point your domain's nameserver records to the following NetActuate nameservers:

  • ns1.netactuate.com
  • ns2.netactuate.com
  • ns3.netactuate.com
  • ns4.netactuate.com

Availability​

DNS management is available through the portal, the API, and the Kubernetes driver.