Nexcess Knowledge Base

Nexcess allows customers to leverage vanity subdomains for website testing purposes. So, vanity domains within Nexcess hosting plans are actually temporary subdomains under the primary domain.

Learn how to create and edit DNS Zones in the Nexcess Client Portal. We will also give a brief overview of how DNS works, and the DNS records you will frequently use.

A pointer domain — or a parked domain — allows you to have multiple domain names display the content of your site. Let's review pointer domains and adding them for a Nexcess-hosted site.

As of 08.23.2022 @ 10 PM ET, any new website on a Nexcess Plan will be given a CNAME Target domain and subdomain from *.nxcli.io instead of *.nxcli.net.

Nexcess Cloud Account admins can easily change a domain name when needed! Via the Nexcess Client Portal, admins can quickly modify the master domain name!

A WHOIS record stores pertinent information about a domain name, its registrant, and its registrar.