The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within 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 ought to be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every Internet domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

When you use a Linux cloud website hosting from our company and you add a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to handle its NS records easily using the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domain names simultaneously with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it is the first you have ever registered. It takes merely 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 a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you would like the new NS records to point to.