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Nameserver Consistency Checker

Nameserver Consistency Checker

Description & Best Practices

What This Tool Does:
This tool compares your domain’s nameserver data from WHOIS records and those returned by public DNS queries. It then checks for consistency between the two.

Best Practices:
- Ensure that the nameserver information in your WHOIS records matches what your DNS actually returns.
- Consistent nameserver data helps ensure reliable DNS resolution.
- Inconsistencies can be due to recent changes or misconfigurations—verify with your registrar if needed.

Important Note on Formatting:
Some DNS resolvers return fully-qualified names with a trailing dot (e.g. "ns1.example.com."), while WHOIS data often omits that. This tool now normalizes names to ignore such differences.

Example Output:

WHOIS Nameservers: ns47.domaincontrol.com, ns48.domaincontrol.com DNS NS Records: ns47.domaincontrol.com, ns48.domaincontrol.com Result: Nameservers are consistent.

If the records differ, the tool will output an inconsistency message, prompting you to verify with your registrar or DNS provider.