The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is required from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain address has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting service from our us and you include a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records with ease via the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain addresses at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain name even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each and every domain name that is registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few clicks using the innovative, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to determine if they're the ones that are necessary for the domain to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to handle any domain name easily even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you want, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain name under which they are set up, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host inside the exact same account. This feature is very useful if you have clients of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is 100 % free.