The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain 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 e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every 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

If you use a Linux hosting from our us and you add a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you are going to be able to control its NS records easily using the Hepsia web hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domain addresses simultaneously with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to control your domain address even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every provider that you want the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, that will help you handle your domain addresses without difficulty even when you have not used a web hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each and every domain registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to forward that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires just several clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain names as part of the free DNS management services we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain address that you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, employing this feature will give you much more credibility as a business.