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sparagi | 12 years ago

If you use Route 53, your zone file is still at Namecheap (registrar). Doesn't that still make Namecheap a failure point?

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daigoba66|12 years ago

No. The zone file lives on the nameserver (DNS server) which Route 53 provides. Namescheap registers a list of nameservers for your domain with the TLD.

An over simplified example for looking up "news.ycombinator.com":

1. First query the TLD nameserver for all ".com" domains asking for the authoritative nameserver(s) for "ycombinator.com".

2. Next query that nameserver for "news.ycombinator.com".

sparagi|12 years ago

But, the first entry point is namecheap. The domain is at Namecheap, so it will not find the zone file at Route 53, if Namecheap does not send it there. Right?