The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. This way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is performed 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 example. Every domain address has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

If you use a Linux hosting from our us and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to control its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain addresses at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to control your domain address even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point 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 of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you would like the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as required without any troubles even if you haven't had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a few clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, included with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have several domains within the account, you will be able to update all of them simultaneously, which will save you a lot of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the correct ones or not in order for the domain name to be pointed to the account that you've got on our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered within the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for every other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.