The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within an Internet browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. In this 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 website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

When you use a Linux shared web hosting from our company and you register a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to handle its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domains at a time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to manage your domain address even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It requires simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any company that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with highly user-friendly interface, that will enable you to manage your domain addresses effortlessly even if you haven't used a hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to point that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and requires just a few mouse clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS control services which we offer you with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain name that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature is going to give you more credibility as a business.