The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are employed, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every domain address has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

Taking care of the NS records for any domain address registered inside a web hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of multiple domains at once if you would like to point them all to the same website hosting provider. Identical steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform because the transfer procedure won't change the name servers automatically and the domains will still redirect to the old host. If you need to set up private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company site, for instance, it's going to have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain address to the same account as well, not just the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for every domain address which is registered through us can be changed with no more than a few clicks via the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as effortless to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to verify if they are the ones that are needed 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 enable you to handle any domain with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain name that you would like to host in the same account. This feature is very handy when you have customers of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is free of charge.