The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, 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 name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every single domain name has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Web Hosting
The outstanding Hepsia Control Panel, offered with with our web hosting products, allows you to take care of the name servers of every single domain registered through us with just a couple of mouse clicks, so even when you haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain address before, you'll not encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it will permit you to edit the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain addresses simultaneously. Additionally we give you the opportunity to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain name registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a pair of IP addresses - either ours, if you're going to use the child NS to point the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you'll use the new records to redirect the domain name to their system. Unlike other companies, we do not charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for every single domain address that is registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks from the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to view the current NS records for a given domain address and to check if they're the ones that are required for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to control any domain easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you would like to host in the exact same account. This option is very useful if you have customers of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available totally free.