The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. With this a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the web site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the right mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Taking care of the NS records for any domain address registered within a shared hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you only moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain name, but even of many domain names at once if you would like to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. Identical steps will also permit you to direct newly transferred domain names to our platform because the transfer process isn't going to change the name servers automatically and the domains will still direct to the old host. If you need to create private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company website, for instance, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account as well, not just the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will allow you to handle your domains effortlessly even when you have never used a hosting account or a domain name before. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered with our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are right or not as to direct that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and requires as little as a few mouse clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under any of your domain names as a part of the free DNS administration services that we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain address that you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, using this feature will give you more credibility as a business.