The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal 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 inside an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you can keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a shared web hosting plan from our us and you add a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you'll be able to handle its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain names simultaneously with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain address even if it is the first you have ever registered. It takes just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain address in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you are going to be able to update its NS records as required without any difficulties even if you have never had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a few clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have multiple domain addresses inside the account, you'll be able to update all of them simultaneously, which will save you quite a lot of time and mouse clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers that a domain address uses and if they are the proper ones or not as a way for the domain name to be forwarded to the account that you've got on our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will enable you to create private name servers under any domain name registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for any other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.