The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain 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 address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain address 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 within a web hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to manage its name servers effortlessly. This is done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with only a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domains at the same time, which could save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a lot of domain names that you would like to redirect to a different provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. We also enable you to set up private name servers for each Internet domain registered with our company and in contrast to many other providers we don't charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for example, all domain names included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each and every domain address that's registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the innovative, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to determine if they're the ones that are needed for the domain name to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain name with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain name under which they're created, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host inside the very same account. This option is very useful if you have clients of your own and you want their websites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is 100 % free.