The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must 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 Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single Internet domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain name registered in a web hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you just seconds. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain name, but even of numerous domains simultaneously whenever you need to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domains to our platform as the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still direct to the old host. If you wish to create private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company website, for example, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for redirecting any other domain to the same account also, not only the one they are created for.