The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. With this 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 website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

In case you register a domain name in a website hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to take care of its name servers without difficulty. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with only a few clicks you will be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domain addresses at a time, which can save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain names that you would like to redirect to another service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we enable you to create private name servers for every domain address registered with our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, which will allow you to handle your domain names easily even if you haven't used a hosting account or a domain name up to now. Changing the NS records for each domain name registered with our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to point that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and requires as little as a couple of clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under any of your domains as an element of the free DNS administration services that we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain name which you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, employing this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.