The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. That way 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 website content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server manages the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every Internet domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Website Hosting
If you register a domain name in a website hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to handle its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a couple of clicks you will be able to update the NS records of a single one or even numerous domain names at once, which will save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain addresses you want to direct to an alternative service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we allow you to set up private name servers for each and every domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for each domain which is registered through us can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks using the advanced, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as effortless to see the current NS records for a given domain name and to determine if they are the ones that are needed for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to handle any domain address with ease even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may also 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 are created, but also for any other domain name that you would like to host inside the exact same account. This option is very handy if you have clients of your own and you would like their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.