Missing nameservers reported by parent
New accounts and added domains on hosting.com shared servers are set up with four nameserver records by default. Nameserver records are also set up at the registrar of a domain. If the nameserver records at the registrar do not list all four records then DNS checkers will report the error Missing nameservers reported by parent If you visit the control panel for the server and the registrar, they may look something like this.
To correct the error, add the missing nameservers to the registrar record.
One nameserver record is used in the SOA (Start Of Authority) record for the domain. If that nameserver is not listed in the registrar record then a SOA MNAME entry error will be shown. New accounts and added domains on hosting.com shared servers are set up using ns1.a2hosting.com as the nameserver in the SOA record. In the table above, ns1.a2hosting.com is not listed as a nameserver in the registrar record so SOA MNAME entry will show an error.
To correct the error, add the missing nameserver to the registrar record.
Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers
It is possible to have more nameservers listed at the registrar than are set up on the server. If you visit the control panel for the server and the registrar, that may look something like this:
In the table above, two nameserver records are missing from the server so a Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers error will be shown.
To correct the error, add the missing nameservers to the server record.
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