The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the needed mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain name has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
Managing the NS records for any domain registered inside a shared hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you just moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you'll be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain name, but even of numerous domain addresses at once whenever you would like to point them all to the same hosting provider. Identical steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domain names to our platform for the reason that transfer procedure isn't going to change the name servers automatically and the domains will still direct to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company site, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain address to the same account also, besides the one they're created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for every domain name which is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to see the current NS records for a given domain address and to verify if they are the ones that are required for the domain address to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to manage any domain address effortlessly even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they're created, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host inside the very same account. This option is very handy when you have customers of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available totally free.