The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server finds out which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

When you use a shared hosting from our us and you register a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you will be able to handle its NS records easily through the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domains at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain address even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each provider that you'd like the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you are going to be able to update its NS records as needed without any difficulties even if you have never had a domain address of your own before. The process takes several clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, provided with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have a number of domains inside the account, you'll be able to update all of them at once, which can save you lots of time and mouse clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers which a domain address uses and if they are the proper ones or not for the domain to be directed to the account that you've got on our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will allow you to create private name servers under any domain registered within the account and use them not only for that domain name, but also for any other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.