The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the range of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain must be retrieved. That way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the website content is required from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server deals with the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) to ensure a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every domain name has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

When you use a Linux shared hosting from our company and you register a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you are going to be able to handle its NS records with ease via the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a group of domain names at the same time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to forward to.