The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out 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 inside an Internet browser, your computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. That 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 and the site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed using 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 a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain registered within a hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you are going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of several domains at once if you want to point them all to the same hosting provider. The exact same steps will also permit you to forward newly transferred domain addresses to our platform given that the transfer procedure isn't going to change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still forward to the old host. If you'd like to set up private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case 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 name to the same account as well, not just the one they are created for.