The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name ought to be retrieved. With this a 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 site content is required from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain name has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

When you use a Linux web hosting from our company and you include a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to handle its NS records easily via the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain addresses at a time with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you go for a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to manage the NS records of any domain registered inside it effortlessly. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is essentially an all-in-one tool where you can handle everything relevant to your web presence, offers a very simple and intuitive interface. The section in which you will find all your domains isn't an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain name and a website hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones is not going to take you more than a few clicks. You are also going to be able to see with a glance what name servers every one of your domain addresses uses presently and if they are the ones required to forward that domain address to the semi-dedicated account. As an additional 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 site, particularly if it's a business one, and you can use these name servers for every other domain which you want to host in the semi-dedicated account as well.