The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must 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 Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the emails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every domain name has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

In the event you register a domain name in a cloud web hosting account from our company, you will be able to handle its name servers without difficulty. This can be done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with just a couple of clicks you will be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain addresses at the same time, which could save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a huge number of domain names that you would like to direct to another service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. In addition we allow you to create private name servers for any domain name registered through our company and unlike many other providers we don't charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any problems even if you have not had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, included with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have several domain names within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which can save you a lot of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain address uses and if they're the right ones or not for the domain name to be forwarded to the account that you've got on our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to set up private name servers under any domain address registered within the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for any other one that you want to direct to our cloud platform.