The NS (Name Server) records of a domain 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 within an Internet 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 should be retrieved. With this a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be sent to the correct mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every Internet domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you use a shared website hosting from our us and you include a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you're going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia web hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain addresses at once with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to manage your domain name even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires simply a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you'll 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 every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.