The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. This way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the web site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you can keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

When you use a shared hosting from our company and you include a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to control its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain names at once with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a few clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every provider that you want the new NS records to forward to.