The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must be retrieved. With this a 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 website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single domain address has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud website hosting service from our us and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to control its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domain names at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It requires simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few clicks more you are going to 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 every company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to control the NS records of each domain registered within it without difficulty. The Hepsia CP, which is essentially an all-in-one tool where you can manage everything relevant to your web presence, offers a very simple and intuitive interface. The section in which you will find all of your domain addresses isn't an exception, so even if you have not had a domain name and a web hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones won't take you more than a several mouse clicks. You are also going to have the ability to see with a glance what name servers each of your domain names uses presently and if they are the ones required to forward that domain name to the semi-dedicated account. As an additional feature, we give you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com free of charge. This will give more credibility to your web site, particularly if it is a business one, and you may use these name servers for every other domain name that you'd like to host in the semi-dedicated account as well.