The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name 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 Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server manages the emails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

In the event you register a domain name within a shared website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to handle its name servers without difficulty. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domain names at the same time, which will save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a large number of domain names that you'd like to redirect to another service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. Additionally we enable you to create private name servers for every single domain address registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we don't charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company 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

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled using Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, that will help you manage your domain addresses with ease even when you haven't used a hosting account or a domain name before. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered through our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are right or not as to point that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires only several clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain names as an element of the free DNS administration services we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain address that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, using this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.