The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. With this a 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 site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

The innovative Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared hosting products, will allow you to handle the name servers of each domain address registered through us with only a few mouse clicks, so even though you may have never had a hosting plan or a domain before, you simply won't encounter any problems. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it'll permit you to edit the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain names together. We also provide you with the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain address registered in the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you will use the child NS to forward the domain to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to redirect the domain to their system. Different from other companies, we do not charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for any domain name that is registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks using the leading-edge, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is 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 necessary for the domain 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 with ease even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host in the very same account. This option is very handy if you have customers of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is free of charge.