The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. This 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 IP and the web site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. 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 a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

If you use a Linux shared hosting package from our company and you add a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to control its NS records easily through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a number of domain addresses simultaneously with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every company that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as needed without any issues even if you haven't had a domain of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have multiple domain names inside the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which could save you a great deal of time and mouse clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the correct ones or not in order for the domain address to be directed to the account which you have on our advanced cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will also permit you to create private name servers under any domain registered in the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for every other one that you would like to point to our cloud platform.