The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in an Internet 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. With this a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain 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 finds out which server deals with the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every Internet domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered inside a hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain, but even of many domains at the same time if you would like to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. The exact same steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domains to our platform since the transfer process is not going to change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still forward 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 mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company site, as an example, it's going to 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 too, besides the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are managed through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will help you control your domains without difficulty even when you have never used a hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each domain registered through our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are accurate or not as to forward that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and requires only a few clicks. You are also going to be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain names as an element of the free DNS management services we offer you with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain which you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, employing this feature will give you much more credibility as a business.