The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. This way a web 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 site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you use a shared website hosting plan from our us and you include a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domains at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain address even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes just a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you would like the new NS records to forward to.