The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name must 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 Internet protocol address and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the emails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you register a domain name in a shared web hosting account from our company, you will be able to take care of its name servers easily. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with just a couple of mouse clicks you will be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domains at a time, which will save you time and efforts when you have a huge number of domains that you would like to forward to an alternative provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. We also enable you to create private name servers for every Internet domain registered using our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs in particular, all domains included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you choose a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to handle the NS records of every domain registered in it with ease. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is in essence an all-in-one tool for you to deal with everything associated with your web presence, offers a very simple and user-friendly interface. The section in which you will find your domain addresses is not an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain address and a hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones is not going to take you more than a couple of mouse clicks. You are also going to be able to see with a glance what name servers every one of your domain names uses currently and if they are the ones needed to point that domain address to the semi-dedicated account. As an extra feature, we give you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com at no extra cost. This will give more credibility to your web site, particularly when it's a business one, and you can use these name servers for every other domain address that you would like to host inside the semi-dedicated account as well.