The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the web site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be sent to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain address has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

When you use a shared plan from our us and you add a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to control its NS records with ease using the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for many domain names at a 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 control your domain name even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain 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 clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every single domain name that is registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few clicks from the advanced, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as effortless to view the current NS records for a particular domain address and to determine if they're the ones that are needed 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 handle any domain effortlessly even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host in the very same account. This option is very useful when you have customers of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.