The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name 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 in a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should 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 web site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered inside a cloud hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you merely moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain, but even of multiple domains simultaneously when you would like to point them all to the same hosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also allow you to forward newly transferred domains to our platform for the reason that transfer process is not going to change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still point to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company site, as an example, it will have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain to the same account also, not only the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every single domain name which is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks using the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to determine if they're the ones that are required 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 effortlessly even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host inside the exact same account. This feature is very beneficial if you have customers of your own and you want their websites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is 100 % free.