The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. This way a 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 requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every Internet domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered inside a cloud web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform is going to take you just moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of several domain addresses at a time if you want to forward them all to the same webhosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also enable you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform for the reason that transfer process isn't going to change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still direct to the old host. If you need to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company web site, as an example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain name to the same account also, besides the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, which will permit you to control your domain addresses effortlessly even if you have never used a hosting account or a domain address previously. Changing the NS records for each domain name registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to direct that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires as little as several mouse clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as part of the free DNS administration services we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address that you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, using this feature is going to give you more credibility as a business.