The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In 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 Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are employed, permitting you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia CP, included with with our shared hosting products, allows you to take care of the name servers of each and every domain registered through us with just a few clicks, so even when you have not had a website hosting plan or a domain name before, you simply won't encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and will permit you to change the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain addresses together. We provide you with the ability to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain name registered in the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to forward the domain to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to redirect the domain name to their system. In contrast to other companies, we do not charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.