The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name 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 name is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server manages the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every Internet domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you use a shared website hosting from our company and you include a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you will be able to handle its NS records easily 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 a group of domain names at the same time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control your domain address even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It requires just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain name 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 IPs of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain address within a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as needed without any troubles even if you have not had a domain address of your own before. The process takes several mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have multiple domain names in the account, you will be able to update all of them at the same time, which will save you lots of time and mouse clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers which a domain address uses and if they're the right ones or not as a way for the domain to be pointed to the account that you've got on our leading-edge cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered inside the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for any other one that you intend to point to our cloud platform.