The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, 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 worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should 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 Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the emails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain name has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
In case you register a domain name within a shared hosting account from our company, you will be able to control its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a couple of clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domains simultaneously, which will save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain names that you would like to point to a different provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. In addition we enable you to create private name servers for every domain name registered with our company and unlike many other companies we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to redirect any other domain name to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs for example, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you invest in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to manage the NS records of each domain address registered inside it with ease. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is in essence an all-in-one tool for you to manage everything associated with your web presence, provides a very simple and easy-to-use interface. The section in which you will find all your domains is not an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain address and a website hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones won't take you more than a several clicks. You will also have the ability to see with a glance what name servers each and every one of your domain addresses uses at the moment and if they are the ones needed to direct 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 totally free. This will give more credibility to your site, especially if it's a business one, and you may use these name servers for every other domain address which you want to host within the semi-dedicated account as well.