The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a Linux shared web hosting package from our company and you register a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to handle its NS records with ease using the Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a group of domain names at a time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain even if it's the first you've ever registered. It requires just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain 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 provider that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain name in 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 difficulties even if you have not had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many domain addresses within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which can save you a lot of time and clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers which a domain 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 sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to create private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not just for that domain name, but also for any other one that you wish to point to our cloud platform.