The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. That way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the site content is required from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain address (MX record) so that a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain name has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

When you use a cloud web hosting from our us and you add a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to manage its NS records easily using the Hepsia website 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 addresses at once with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to control your domain even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires just a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only 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 IP addresses of any provider that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every domain name that's registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few clicks through the innovative, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to check if they are the ones that are needed for the domain address to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they're created, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host inside the exact same account. This option is very handy when you have clients of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.