The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain name has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Taking care of the NS records for any domain name registered inside a shared hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you merely moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of many domain names at the same time in case that you would like to point them all to the same hosting company. Exactly the same steps will also allow you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform for the reason that transfer process does not change the name servers automatically and the domain names 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'll be able to do that with just a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company web site, for instance, 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 address to the same account as well, besides the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any issues even if you haven't had a domain address of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have many domains inside the account, you will be able to update all of them at once, which could save you quite a lot of time and mouse clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers which a domain address uses and if they are the right ones or not as a way for the domain to be forwarded to the account that you have on our sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will allow you to create private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not just for that domain, but also for every other one that you intend to point to our cloud platform.