The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. 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 required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting from our us and you add a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to handle its NS records easily through the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domains at a time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few 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 IPs of any provider that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you will be able to update its NS records as required without any issues even if you have never had a domain name of your own before. The process takes several clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, provided with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have many different domains within the account, you'll be able to update all of them simultaneously, which can save you a great deal of time and clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they're the correct ones or not for the domain name to be directed to the account that you have on our innovative cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even allow you to create private name servers under any domain registered in the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for every other one that you want to point to our cloud platform.