The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. That way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud web hosting from our company and you register a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to manage its NS records easily through the Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domain names at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to manage your domain even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes just a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for any domain name that is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few clicks via the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a specific domain and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain address to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to control any domain address effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain address that you'd like to host inside the exact same account. This option is very beneficial if you have clients of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is totally free.