The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is required from the right location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered within a hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you merely moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain address, but even of several domain names at the same time when you would like to direct them all to the same hosting company. Exactly the same steps will also enable you to forward newly transferred domain addresses to our platform given that the transfer process doesn't change the name servers automatically and the domains will still redirect to the old host. If you wish to create private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company website, for example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain name to the same account too, not only the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for any domain name which is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks using the sophisticated, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to see the current NS records for a particular domain address and to check if they are the ones that are required for the domain address to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to manage any domain name easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they are created, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host in the same account. This option is very useful if you have clients of your own and you wish their sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is absolutely free.