The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. With this a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server deals with the emails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, so you can keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you register a domain name inside a shared website hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to handle its name servers with ease. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with a few clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domain names simultaneously, which can save you time and efforts if you have a large number of domain names that you would like to direct to a different service provider. You can enter many name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. Furthermore we permit you to set up private name servers for every domain name registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we don't charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to redirect any other domain name 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 handled through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, which will enable you to control your domain addresses effortlessly even if you haven't used a hosting account or a domain address previously. Changing the NS records for each domain name registered with our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are accurate or not as to point that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and takes just a few clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS administration 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 any domain address you accommodate inside 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.