The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. That 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 web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

If you register a domain name in a shared hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to manage its name servers easily. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you will be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domains simultaneously, which can save you considerable time and efforts if you have a huge number of domain names that you'd like to forward to a different provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. In addition we permit you to set up private name servers for each and every Internet domain registered with our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs in particular, all domain addresses added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for any domain that is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few clicks using the leading-edge, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a specific domain and to check if they're the ones that are necessary for the domain to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to control any domain easily 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 name under which they're set up, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host inside the exact same account. This feature is very useful if you have customers of your own and you would like their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is free of charge.