The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain address has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered inside a hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia CP, you are going to be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of several domain names at once if you want to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. The exact same steps will also permit you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform because the transfer procedure does not change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still point to the old host. If you wish to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a couple of clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company web site, for example, it's going to have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain to the same account also, not only the one they are created for.