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Q. I entered my nameservers in the order I want them, but you've reversed the DNS order at the registry.

A. Nameservers can be listed in any order with the Registrar. However, each Registry does not require any particular order, and they list the nameservers in the order that they are set up to list nameservers. Typically they are listed alphabetically, but not in all cases, (it is up to the specific Registry.)

It does not matter which order they are listed, because when the nameservers are queried, they are queried simultaneously, and the first one to answer is assigned by the Registry to that particular query as "primary" at that point in time.

What this means is that regardless of how they are listed, the order of the listing does not determine which nameserver is queried first.

The order that the nameservers appear in the Registry is not up to the Registrar, and cannot be changed by the Registrar.

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