setting up DNS DC AD on windows 2008

This is a long post but has all the information I did.
I have been trying hard to set up my own DNS on windows 2008 server. I only
have one server and is for web hosting my personal websites. I intend to host
my own websites and their sub domains. The server is having DC + DNS and IIS
(including websites) - all-in-one. But it doesn't seem to work. Ofcourse I
want to have active directory as well so that I could extend for couple of
more users and clients later. Here is the background.

- Setting up the DNS for the first time ( No experience) on windows 2008
server
- Installed windows 2008
- Changed the computer name to NS1 (Pointed to this ns1.mywebsite.com from
godaddy name server and gave this server ip in godaddy @ ip)
- Installed first DC and AD and DNS with the following info
FQDN : mywebsite.com
( didn't put NS1 as that was the computer name. Should I use
NS1.mywebsite.com for FQDN instead?)
netbois : mywebsite

( what do I need to check if the above has been installed correctly? what
nslookup commands I need to run? I tried with NS1.mywebsite.com and it works
correclty locally on the server pointing to the same ip)

Created new host record with
sub.mywebstie.com
demo.mywebsite.com

created their corresponding websites in IIS on the same server

my server uses internal IP that I got from colocation provider as below:

10.10.12.201 for DMZ and
10.0.12.210 for VPN

where as my external public ip is 209.218.213.201
(ip's not correct but just for understanding)

mostly

ns1.mywebsite.com works pointing to a website in IIS

however
sub.mywebsite.com
demo.mywebsite.com

doesn't work.

I tried to look up at checkdns.net
sub.mywebsite.com
mywebsite.com

It comes back with
Error fetching SOA from ns1.bharathosting.net [209.218.213.201], request
timed out. Probably DNS server is offline.

my questions are:
What is going wrong?
Have I configured it correctly?
How do I check if all I did is correct?
are there any specific steps that one could give me to setup my own dns on
windows 2008 from scratch. I can start all over fresh again. However, before
hosting I want everything to be setup correctly.
do I need to get any thing at my domain name registrar (godaddy.com)?

I greatly appreciate any help.

.

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