The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. With this 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 web site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server handles the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Cloud Hosting
If you use a cloud plan from our company and you register a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you are going to be able to control its NS records easily via the Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain addresses at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every provider that you want the new NS records to forward to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, that will permit you to handle your domains easily even if you have not used a web hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each domain registered with our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are accurate or not as to point that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and requires just a couple of mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under any of your domain addresses as part of the free DNS control services we offer you with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address you accommodate in the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature will give you more credibility as a business.