The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out 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 inside a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. 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 website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered within a web hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you are going to be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain address, but even of multiple domain addresses at once in case that you intend to direct them all to the same hosting company. The exact same steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform given that the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still redirect to the old host. If you need to create private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company web site, for instance, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain name to the same account too, not just the one they are created for.