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 an Internet browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. With this a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be sent to the correct mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every domain name has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain name registered within a cloud hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you merely moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of many domain addresses at a time in case that you need to point them all to the same webhosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also permit you to point newly transferred domain addresses to our platform because the transfer process does not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still point to the old host. If you wish to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company site, for example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain name to the same account also, besides the one they are created for.