The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name ought to be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the web site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

When you use a web hosting from our us and you include a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records with ease through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for many domain names at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain even if it is the first you have ever registered. It takes simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.