The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. This way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain address has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

The innovative Hepsia Control Panel, offered with with our website hosting plans, will allow you to deal with the name servers of each domain address registered through our company with only a few mouse clicks, so even though you may haven't had a web hosting plan or a domain address before, you won't encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it'll permit you to modify the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain addresses all at once. In addition we provide you with the ability to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every single domain address registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you are going to use the child NS to point the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to point the domain address to their system. Unlike other companies, we don't charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.