The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a 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 address must be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every domain name has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud website hosting service from our us and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to control its NS records effortlessly using 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 a group of domain names at once with several mouse clicks. This is done using 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 address even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It requires only a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each provider that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for any domain name that is registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the leading-edge, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a particular domain address and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary 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 handle any domain name easily even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain address under which they're set up, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host in the exact same account. This feature is very useful when you have customers of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is 100 % free.