The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your PC 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 is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each domain name has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud website hosting from our company and you add a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a group of domain names at once with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It takes merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain 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 few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for each and every domain address which is registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks from the innovative, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to determine if they are the ones that are required 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 with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host in the same account. This feature is very useful when you have clients of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.