The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. In this way 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 requested from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is performed through the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every domain address has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

In case you register a domain name in a cloud hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to manage its name servers effortlessly. This can be done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of one or even several domain names at once, which could save you time and efforts when you have a lot of domain addresses you want to forward to a different service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we allow you to set up private name servers for every domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The new NS records can be used to direct any other domain to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.