The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. With this 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 finds out which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you register a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to manage its NS records with ease using the Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domains at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain name even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you want the new NS records to forward to.