The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out 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 in a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. With this a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name 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 discovers which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single Internet domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Website Hosting

If you use a Linux website hosting from our company and you register a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you'll be able to control its NS records easily through the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domain addresses at once with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to handle your domain address even if it is the first you've ever registered. It takes just a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain name 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 any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every provider that you would like the new NS records to forward to.