The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal 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 inside a web browser, your personal computer 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. This way a web 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 requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Web Hosting
Controlling the NS records for any domain name registered in a shared web hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you only seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain name, but even of numerous domain addresses at once when you would like to point them all to the same hosting company. The very same steps will also permit you to forward newly transferred domain names to our platform given that the transfer process will not change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still point to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company web site, as an example, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account as well, besides the one they are created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for any domain address that's registered through us can be changed with no more than a few clicks using the sophisticated, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to view the current NS records for a specific domain and to determine if they are the ones that are required 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 control any domain address effortlessly even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may 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 are created, but also for any other domain that you might want to host in the same account. This option is very useful when you have customers of your own and you want their sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.