The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. With this a 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 proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain name has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that 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 packages, will permit you to handle the name servers of every domain registered through our company with only a few clicks, so even though you may have not had a web hosting plan or a domain name before, you won't encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to change the NS records of any domain or even a number of domains all at once. In addition we give you the chance to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you're going to use the child NS to direct the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to redirect the domain name to their system. Different from other companies, we don't charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for every single domain address which is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks from the advanced, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to see the current NS records for a given domain and to verify if they're the ones that are needed for the domain to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain address easily even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, 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're created, but also for any other domain that you might want to host within the same account. This option is very beneficial when you have customers of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.