The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within an Internet browser, your computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. 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 web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

If you register a domain name inside a website hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to manage its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with a few clicks you will be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domain addresses simultaneously, which could save you considerable time and efforts in case you have a lot of domains that you'd like to point to another provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. We also enable you to set up private name servers for any Internet domain registered via our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for instance, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for each and every domain name that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks from the advanced, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a particular domain and to determine if they're the ones that are required for the domain address to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to manage any domain address easily even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host inside the very same account. This feature is very useful if you have clients of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is free of charge.