The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must 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 and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every single domain name has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
If you register a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to take care of its name servers easily. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with only a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even several domains simultaneously, which can save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a large number of domains you want to direct to a different provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. In addition we permit you to set up private name servers for any Internet domain registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything additional for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for instance, all domain names included in the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, that will allow you to control your domain addresses effortlessly even if you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for any domain registered through our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are accurate or not as to direct that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and requires just several mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain names as part of the free DNS administration services we offer you with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain name you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their websites, using this feature will give you much more credibility as a business.