The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name ought to be retrieved. This way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the site content is required from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single Internet domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

If you register a domain name inside a hosting account from our company, you will be able to manage its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with a few mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain addresses simultaneously, which can save you considerable time and efforts in case you have a lot of domains that you would like to direct to an alternative service provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. In addition we allow you to set up private name servers for every domain name registered through our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to redirect any other domain name to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs for example, all domain names included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each domain address that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few clicks via the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to view the current NS records for a specific domain and to determine if they are 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 enable you to handle any domain easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, 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 are set up, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host in the exact same account. This feature is very handy if you have customers of your own and you would like their websites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is absolutely free.