The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must 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 web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain address has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered in a website hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you just moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you'll be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain, but even of many domain addresses at the same time whenever you would like to direct them all to the same webhosting provider. The very same steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform given that the transfer procedure is not going to change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still forward to the old host. If you want to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with just a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company web site, for example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain address to the same account too, not only the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are managed via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with highly user-friendly interface, which will permit you to handle your domains without difficulty even if you have not used a hosting account or a domain up to now. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to direct that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and takes as little as a couple of clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domain addresses as a part of the free DNS control services which we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, employing this feature is going to give you more credibility as a business.