The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain should be retrieved. That 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 web site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every single domain address has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you use a Linux web hosting from our company and you register a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to control its NS records with ease using the Hepsia hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for many domains at a time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to manage 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're the correct ones to direct a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a few 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 company that you would like the new NS records to direct to.