The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, 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 should be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the website content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each domain name has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
If you use a Linux shared package from our company and you include a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you will be able to control its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, provided 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 many domain addresses at the same 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 is going to make it simple to manage your domain address even if it is the first you've ever registered. It requires merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you will 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 each and every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are managed through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, which will help you manage your domain names without difficulty even when you have never used a web hosting account or a domain address up to now. Changing the NS records for each and every domain name registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to direct that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and takes just several clicks. You are also going to be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domains as part of the free DNS management services which we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their websites, employing this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.