The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show 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 a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. This way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every Internet domain has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
The avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel, included with with our shared hosting packages, will enable you to manage the name servers of each domain address registered through our company with only a couple of mouse clicks, so even if you have not had a website hosting plan or a domain address before, you simply won't encounter any troubles. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, features a very user-friendly interface and it will allow you to change the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain names together. Additionally we offer you the ability to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain address registered inside 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 point 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 direct the domain address to their system. Different from other providers, we do not charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for any domain name that is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the leading-edge, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to see the current NS records for a specific domain name and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain to be forwarded 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 name effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you want, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain name under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you might want to host within the same account. This feature is very handy if you have customers of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.