The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in a browser, your PC 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. 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 address and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every Internet domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you use a Linux web hosting from our us and you register a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to manage its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, 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 a number of domain names at once with several clicks. This is done using 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 even if it is the first you've ever registered. It requires simply a click to see what name servers a domain address 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 a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every domain name that's registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to check if they are the ones that are necessary 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 address with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you would 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're set up, but also for any other domain name that you'd like to host within the same account. This feature is very handy if you have clients of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is free of charge.