My company has had a .co.th domain for years mainly for email for which we have always used the same local hosting service and have an Exchange server onsite which collects the email from multiple POP3 accounts.

I recently decided to move everything on that domain to Microsoft's Office 365 with hosted Exchange, Sharepoint etc. I was expecting it to be a fairly easy move however I have hit a brick wall with DNS hosting. I have gone through the setup wizard on Office 365, got all the mail boxes ready and now just need to transfer the domain. The wizard now instructs me to go to my domain registrar and create either a TXT or an MX record to verify domain ownership and then set all the DNS records.

Problem! When I login to THNIC, the one and only registrar for Thai domains, there is no facility to set domain records. The only thing I can set are the name servers (ns1.abc.com, ns2.abc.com) etc.

I don't have much experience with this stuff but have had no problems in the past doing similar with .com domains registered at godaddy et al.

After some googling it has become apparent that "most" but not "all" domain registrars also provide DNS hosting. THNIC is obviously one of the few that don't. Guess they have a monopoly so why bother.

So my questions are:

1- Do I need to buy a DNS hosting service from somewhere?

2 - If so, any suggestions for a good service?

Cloudflare. Set the thainic DNS pointer with cloudflare nameservers then add your mx records to the cloudflare panel.

Cloudflare. Set the thainic DNS pointer with cloudflare nameservers then add your mx records to the cloudflare panel.

Great, brilliant and excellent suggestion!!!!!!

Thanks to you my hosted Exchange (& other Office 365 stuff) is now up and running. Just before I saw your post I was about to sign up to a paid DNS hosting service but was a bit wary whether I was doing the right thing.

Cloudflare was easy to setup, works perfectly & best of all FREE!

Cheers & thanks again.