The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the web site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the emails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered inside a cloud hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you only moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia CP, you are going to be able to change the name servers not just of one domain, but even of many domain addresses at once in case that you intend to point them all to the same hosting company. The exact same steps will also permit you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform given that the transfer process will not change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still forward to the old host. If you'd like to set up private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company site, for example, it's going to have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account as well, not only the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as required without any problems even if you have never had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many different domain names inside the account, you are going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which can save you a lot of time and clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they're the correct ones or not in order for the domain name to be pointed to the account which you have on our sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will also enable you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for every other one that you would like to point to our cloud platform.