The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. This way a web 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 requested from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server deals with the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. 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 Shared Hosting

If you use a Linux shared hosting package from our us and you add a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you're going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a group of domain names at a time with several 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 simple to handle your domain name even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to 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 IPs of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you register a new domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you'll be able to update its NS records as required without any problems even if you have not had a domain name of your own before. The process takes several mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, provided with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have several domains inside the account, you are going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which can save you a great deal of time and clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain address uses and if they are the correct ones or not in order for the domain address to be directed to the account which you have on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even enable you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not just for that domain, but also for any other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.