The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal 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 within an Internet browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. That 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 website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you use a Linux shared website hosting from our us and you add a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia hosting CP, provided 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 domains simultaneously 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 is going to make it easy to control your domain address even if it is the first you've ever registered. It requires merely a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only 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 IP addresses of any company that you want the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every single domain that's registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to view the current NS records for a specific domain address and to determine if they're 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 allow you to manage any domain address effortlessly even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're created, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host within the same account. This feature is very handy when you have customers of your own and you would like their web sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is free of charge.