Making my DNS valid for domain names

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On Tuesday 2005-October-04 20:25, Creighton Fox wrote:
> How do I get my DNS recognized as a name server?  If I do a 'dig' on
> everydns, it shows their name servers as ns1-4.everydns.net.  How do
> people know where to find everydns.net?  It seems to me that they

The TLD (top-level domain, "net." here) servers know NS records for 
everydns.net. Domain registrars set up the necessary NS and "glue" 
records. "Glue" are the "A" records for NS names in the zone. Here:

$ dig @f.gtld-servers.net. everydns.net. any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> @f.gtld-servers.net. everydns.net. any
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38867
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;everydns.net.                  IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns1.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns2.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns3.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns4.everydns.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns1.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns2.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns3.everydns.net.
everydns.net.           172800  IN      NS      ns4.everydns.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.everydns.net.       172800  IN      A       64.158.219.3
ns2.everydns.net.       172800  IN      A       216.218.240.206
ns3.everydns.net.       172800  IN      A       80.84.249.169
ns4.everydns.net.       172800  IN      A       63.219.183.200
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