The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. In this way 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 website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

In case you register a domain name in a web hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to manage its name servers easily. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even multiple domains at once, which can save you time and efforts when you have a large number of domains that you'd like to direct to another provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Additionally we permit you to set up private name servers for any domain registered using our company and unlike many other companies we don't charge anything additional for this service. The new NS records can be used to redirect any other domain to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs in particular, all domains included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are managed using Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, that will permit you to manage your domain names effortlessly even if you have not used a web hosting account or a domain address before. Changing the NS records for each and every domain name registered with our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are correct or not as to direct that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires just a couple of clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under any of your domain names as part of the free DNS control services which we offer you 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 you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, employing this feature will give you a lot more credibility as a business.