The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. This 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 site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the emails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every domain name has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

If you register a domain name inside a hosting account from our company, you'll be able to manage its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of a single one or even numerous domain addresses at the same time, which could save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domain addresses that you would like to direct to an alternative service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we enable you to set up private name servers for each domain address registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything extra for this service. The new NS records can be used to direct any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs for instance, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for any domain address that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks through the leading-edge, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to view the current NS records for a specific domain name and to determine if they're the ones that are necessary 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 easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can 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 created, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host within the same account. This option is very handy if you have customers of your own and you want their websites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is 100 % free.