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, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. With this 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 proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain address has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you use a cloud website hosting plan from our company and you register a new domain name in the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to handle its NS records with ease using the Hepsia 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 several domain addresses at once with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every company that you would like the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for any domain that's registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks from the leading-edge, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain and to determine if they're the ones that are required for the domain to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to control any domain effortlessly even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they are set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host within the very same account. This feature is very beneficial when you have clients of your own and you want their sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is free of charge.