The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within 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. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name 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 detects which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every domain address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use a cloud website hosting from our company and you add a new domain name in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to handle its NS records with ease through the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domain addresses at a time with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It takes just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to point to.