The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. This way a web 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 site content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every single domain address has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia CP, offered with with our cloud hosting packages, will permit you to control the name servers of each and every domain registered through our company with only a few clicks, so even if you have not had a web hosting plan or a domain address before, you will not encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain addresses all at once. We also give you the chance to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you're going to use the child NS to forward the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to point the domain name to their system. Different from other providers, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for any domain address that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a specific domain name and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain name to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain address easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you'd 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're created, but also for any other domain address that you'd like to host in the same account. This feature is very useful when you have customers of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.