The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the group of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a browser, your computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain 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 site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every single domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia CP, which comes with our shared website hosting products, will enable you to deal with the name servers of every domain name registered through us with simply a few clicks, so even though you may have never had a website hosting plan or a domain before, you will not encounter any problems. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, features a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain or even a number of domains together. We offer you the chance to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IP addresses - 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 will use the new records to redirect the domain address to their system. Different from other providers, we do not charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.