The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is required from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
In case you register a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company, you'll be able to handle its name servers with ease. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with only a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even numerous domain addresses at once, which can save you time and efforts in case you have a lot of domains that you would like to forward to another provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. We also allow you to set up private name servers for each and every domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to redirect any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for instance, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for any domain which is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks from the innovative, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to see the current NS records for a given domain and to determine if they're the ones that are needed for the domain to be forwarded 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 address with ease even if you have never 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 just for the domain name under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you'd like to host within the very same account. This option is very beneficial if you have clients of your own and you would like their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is totally free.