The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should 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 IP address and the site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

In the event you register a domain name within a shared hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to take care of its name servers with ease. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domain names simultaneously, which will save you time and efforts in case you have a large number of domain addresses that you'd like to forward to an alternative provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. We also enable you to create private name servers for every Internet domain registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for instance, all domain addresses added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you go for a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to control the NS records of each domain name registered in it without difficulty. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is in essence an all-in-one tool for you to handle everything associated with your web presence, provides a very simple and easy-to-use interface. The section in which you will find all of your domain names isn't an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain name and a website hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones won't take you more than a several mouse clicks. You will also be able to see with a glance what name servers every one of your domain names uses presently and if they are the ones required to point that domain name to the semi-dedicated account. As an extra feature, we offer you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com 100% free. This will give more credibility to your site, especially when it's a business one, and you could use these name servers for any other domain that you might want to host in the semi-dedicated account as well.