The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. With this a 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 right location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each domain address has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a cloud web hosting from our us and you include a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you're going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain names at a time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control 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 name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you would like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any problems even if you haven't had a domain address of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have many different domain names within the account, you'll be able to update all of them at once, which could save you lots of time and mouse clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers which a domain uses and if they're the right ones or not in order for the domain address to be forwarded to the account that you have on our sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will also enable you to create private name servers under any domain 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.