The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server finds out which server deals with the emails for the domain address (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

If you use a website hosting from our us and you add a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you are going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia web hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a number of domain names at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes simply 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 address to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you will 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 IPs of each and every company that you would like the new NS records to point to.