The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. This way 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 website content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, so you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

If you use a Linux shared hosting from our company and you include a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to handle its NS records with ease via the Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a number of domains at once with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires merely a click to see what name servers a domain name 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 only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for any domain name that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few clicks using the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to see the current NS records for a specific domain address and to verify if they're the ones that are needed 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 permit you to control any domain address easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you want, you may 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 created, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host in the exact same account. This option is very beneficial if you have customers of your own and you wish their sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is free of charge.