The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal 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 inside an Internet browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. In 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 Internet protocol address and the website content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the emails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you use a Linux web hosting from our us and you add a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to manage its NS records with ease through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a number of domains at a time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain name even if it is 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 direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you want the new NS records to forward 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 provider, you will be able to update its NS records as needed without any issues even if you have not had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, included with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have multiple domains within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which can save you quite a lot of time and clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers that a domain address uses and if they are the right ones or not for the domain address to be forwarded to the account that you have got on our innovative cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will also enable you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not just for that domain, but also for every other one that you would like to point to our cloud platform.