The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name ought to be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain address has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

When you use a Linux hosting from our company and you register a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to handle its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided 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 number of domains at once with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain even if it is the first you have ever registered. It takes only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct 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 one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each company that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you'll be able to update its NS records as required without any issues even if you have never had a domain address of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, included with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many domain addresses within the account, you'll be able to update all of them at once, which can save you a lot of time and clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they are the right ones or not as a way for the domain name to be pointed to the account that you have got on our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to create private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not only for that domain, but also for every other one that you wish to direct to our cloud platform.