How a photo studio should handle nameservers

nameservers for a photo studio is nothing like nameservers for a multinational. The scale is tiny but the stakes are the same: one wrong record and nobody can reach you.

Half the meeting with a photo studio was explaining what nameservers is. The other half was agreeing that an SPF record overwritten during a DNS edit should have been fixed a year ago.

We moved nameservers for a photo studio to a provider that supports DNSSEC. It added five minutes to the migration and closed a class of attacks they did not even know about.

When a photo studio asked for a quote on nameservers, we sent a one-paragraph email instead of a slide deck. They signed the same day.

We billed a photo studio two hours for nameservers. The previous agency billed forty hours and left an SPF record overwritten during a DNS edit behind. Complexity is not expertise.

Email deliverability is nobody’s favourite topic, but a photo studio lost two bookings because nameservers was misconfigured and replies landed in spam for a week.

Test nameservers from outside your network before you call it done. Your office Wi-Fi might cache the old answer for another six hours.

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