The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must 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 web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the emails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of 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 address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Web Hosting
In case you register a domain name in a shared web hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to control its name servers easily. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with only a few mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domain names at a time, which will save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a huge number of domains you want to forward to another service provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. We also allow you to set up private name servers for every single Internet domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain name to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for instance, all domain names included in the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for each domain that's registered through us can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the innovative, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to see the current NS records for a particular domain name and to determine if they're the ones that are needed for the domain name to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain address with ease even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain name under which they're set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host within the very same account. This option is very beneficial if you have customers of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is 100 % free.