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 collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside an Internet 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 address should be retrieved. With this 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 address and the site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered within a shared hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain, but even of numerous domains at a time when you want to point them all to the same hosting provider. The very same steps will also permit you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform for the reason that transfer process is not going to change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still redirect to the old host. If you would like to create private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company site, for instance, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for redirecting any other domain name to the same account also, besides the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for each and every domain name that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few clicks via the sophisticated, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to see the current NS records for a specific domain address and to check if they are 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 allow you to manage any domain name effortlessly even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain address under which they are created, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host in the very same account. This feature is very useful when you have clients of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available free of charge.