The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain address has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

When you use a shared plan from our company and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you are going to be able to handle its NS records with ease via the Hepsia web hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domains at a time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It requires just a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address 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 each provider that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every domain that's registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the innovative, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as effortless to see the current NS records for a given domain address and to determine if they are the ones that are needed 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 enable you to control any domain name effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you would 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're set up, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host in the very same account. This option is very useful when you have clients of your own and you would like their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is totally free.