The concept of nameservers is important to understand for the purposes of domain name management.

Nameserver information is basically like a "pointer", so that when a person types in a domain name into their browser, the browser knows where to go in order to download the Web page.

The domain name itself might be something like www.johndoe.com, but the nameserver information is a completely separate issue, and is determined by the company where you
are hosting your Web site.

For example, when you first register a domain name, you might not have it pointed
anywhere in particular. If you type the domain name in, you might get an automatically generated "parking page", which says something like "coming soon".

In this scenario, the company that you registered the domain name through has temporarily set the nameserver information to point to a specific set of server computers, which take any requests for the domain name, and route it to the parking page.

Example nameserver information:

NS1.HOSTINGCOMPANY.COM

NS2.HOSTINGCOMPANY.COM

If you register a new domain name through Jetset, and order web hosting along with it, the nameserver information is automatically pointed at the right location.

However, if you registered your domain name somewhere else, and want to order a Web hosting plan, you would need to "point" the domain name at Jetset's name servers This is accomplished by logging into the account provided by your registrar, and updating the nameserver information, so that the domain name points to Jetset Hosting.

For example, if you went to JetsetHosting.com, and went through the process of ordering a web hosting account, at some point you'd have to enter a domain name, either an entirely new one, or one that you've registered somewhere else.

If you indicate that you've already registered somewhere else, then part of the process of making your Web site active will involve pointing the nameservers at Jetset.