The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should 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 requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every domain address has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you add a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you're going to be able to handle its NS records with ease through the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for many domains at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to handle your domain even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name 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 each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every company that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered using Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will permit you to handle your domain addresses effortlessly even when you haven't used a hosting account or a domain up to now. Changing the NS records for any domain registered with our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to point that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and requires just several mouse clicks. You're also going to be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domains as part of the free DNS control services we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain address that you accommodate in the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, using this feature is going to give you far more credibility as a business.