The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each and every domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

In case you register a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company, you will be able to manage its name servers without difficulty. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with just a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domains at a time, which can save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domain names that you'd like to direct to a different service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company provides you with. Additionally we allow you to set up private name servers for every Internet domain registered using our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to forward any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for instance, all domain names included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, that will help you manage your domain names without difficulty even when you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for any domain registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to point that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and requires only a couple of mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under any of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS control services which 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 that you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, employing this feature is going to give you a lot more credibility as a business.