The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the website content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every single domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you register a domain name in a cloud hosting account from our company, you will be able to take care of its name servers easily. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domain addresses at the same time, which will save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domains you want to point to another provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. We permit you to create private name servers for every single domain registered with our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider 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 Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled using Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will permit you to control your domain addresses with ease even if you have not used a hosting account or a domain name in the past. Changing the NS records for each domain name registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are accurate 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 mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS administration services we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain which you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature will give you far more credibility as a business.