Custom DNS Inactive for subdomain

I just talked to my hosting provider.. They told me that they can't only change the subdomain's NS, they can change the NS of the whole domain with its subdomains, not just the subdomain... – whisperdpt

Fine, so you could go with your zone as a whole over to DynDNS Custom, and you have then full control over your DNS. You already have anything you need. Why not?

You configure the main site (with and without www.) to point to your webhoster's server, probably a static IP address, and the subdomain to point to your home network. You keep this subdomain A record updated with your dynamic IP address information. That's it!

I just talked to my hosting provider.. They told me that they can't only change the subdomain's NS, they can change the NS of the whole domain with its subdomains, not just the subdomain...

That is strange. Technically it is not at all complicated for a provider to offer the ability to create NS records for sub-domains.

If you want to move the DNS for the entire domain, make sure the hosting provider doesn't change IPs on their web servers regularly (and without prior notice), as you will have to re-create the records which point to the provider's servers. If their web server changes IP, you will have to update the affected hostname(s) in your DNS zone.

For step 2 you need to add NS records, 5 records in total listing the name servers covered in the DynDNS Custom DNS documentation.

Note too that you're not using Dynamic DNS but Custom DNS. They're different services.

When I said NS records I really did mean NS records, not A records - if I'd meant A records I'd have said that (and that's what the documentation would have said). Remove your A records and create the NS records.

A records are Address records, they resolve to IP addresses. NS records are Name Server records and provide the details of the DNS server responsible for records.

Sorry I'm lost a little bit. Shall I click on Add Custom DNS Service or Add Zone Services to transfer my domain from bluehost to dynamicdns? I'm reading the how to transfer providers without downtime but this part got me lost. Do i have to pay additional fees? – whisperdpt

No, you do not need to transfer your domain registration and your webhosting package from bluehost to DynDNS, just the DNS hosting part. This is called delegation. See this article. And no, this shouldn't be with additional cost, because you paid bluehost for domain registration and webhosting, and DynDNS for DNS hosting.

Not too sure how to change it with your existing DynDNS Custom package, I hadn't to do this. If you already declared cs.dubaiplaytime.com as your zone for your DynDNS Custom package, you may need to contact DynDNS support to ask them to change this to dubaiplaytime.com. I believe you can't do it yourself, but I may be wrong. Someone may correct me then.