The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every Internet domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered in a shared hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you only seconds. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia CP, you're going to be able to change the name servers not just of one domain address, but even of numerous domain names at the same time whenever you need to point them all to the same hosting company. Identical steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domains to our platform given that the transfer process will not change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still point to the old host. If you need to create private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company site, for example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain address to the same account as well, not only the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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