The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. In 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 site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain name has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered in a cloud web hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you just seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of numerous domains at a time if you would like to point them all to the same website hosting provider. Identical steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domain addresses to our platform since the transfer process won't change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still direct to the old host. If you'd like to create private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company website, for instance, it's going to have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain name to the same account as well, not only the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you choose a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to manage the NS records of every domain name registered in it easily. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is in essence an all-in-one tool for you to deal with everything related to your web presence, offers a very simple and easy-to-use interface. The section where you will find all your domain addresses is not an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain name and a web hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones is not going to take you more than a couple of clicks. You're also going to be able to see with a glance what name servers each of your domains uses right now and if they are the ones required to point that domain to the semi-dedicated account. As an added feature, we present you with opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com at no extra cost. This will give more credibility to your web site, especially when it is a business one, and you could use these name servers for every other domain name that you'd like to host within the semi-dedicated account as well.