The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the right mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain address has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use a cloud website hosting from our us and you add a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to control its NS records easily via the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domain names at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to manage your domain even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes just 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 name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

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