Vanity Nameservers

Definition

Vanity Nameservers are nameservers that represent your reseller business to your clients, and contain your domain name, but let you still manage the domain as a separate zone from your main reseller zone.

Context

Assuming you have premiumwpreseller.org as your reseller domain, and example.com as a property zone, the nameservers registered for both names will look like this:

Vanity nameservers are not required, but can be a nice way to have additional market reach with each of your zone properties you manage, although they do require a little more setup up-front.

user@machine:~ $ whois premiumwpreseller.org
   domain name: premiumwpreseller.org
   [ ... ]
   name server: ns1.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns2.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns3.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns4.premiumwpreseller.org
user@machine:~ $ whois example.com
   domain name: example.com
   [ ... ]
   name server: ns1.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns2.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns3.premiumwpreseller.org
   name server: ns4.premiumwpreseller.org

Glue Records

Vanity nameservers require you (the reseller) to setup special DNS Hostnames with your registrar called Glue Records, but do not require your client properties to do anything special.