The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is required from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every 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 Hosting

In the event you register a domain name inside a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll be able to control its name servers without difficulty. This can be done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with just a couple of mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domain addresses at a time, which will save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a huge number of domain addresses that you'd like to point to an alternative service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. We also allow you to set up private name servers for any domain address registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so every time 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 domain name which is registered through us can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the sophisticated, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as effortless to see the current NS records for a given domain and to verify if they're the ones that are required for the domain address to be forwarded 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 with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain address under which they're set up, but also for any other domain that you might want to host inside the very same account. This option is very useful if you have customers of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.