The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address 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 Internet protocol address and the site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you use a cloud website hosting from our us and you include a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you're going to be able to handle its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia website hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain names at once with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain name even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It takes simply a click to see what name servers a domain 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 a few mouse 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 each provider that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each and every domain that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to view the current NS records for a specific domain and to determine if they're 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 permit you to control any domain name effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain name under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you would like to host within the very same account. This feature is very handy when you have customers of your own and you wish their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available totally free.