The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name ought to be retrieved. In this way 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 website content is requested from the proper location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Every domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Web Hosting
Managing the NS records for any domain address registered within a web hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you only seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you will be able to change the name servers not just of one domain address, but even of many domains at once when you want to forward them all to the same hosting provider. Identical steps will also allow you to forward newly transferred domains to our platform given that the transfer process isn't going to change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still point to the old host. If you need to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company website, as an example, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account also, not only the one they're created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you go for a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to manage the NS records of any domain name registered in it without difficulty. The Hepsia CP, which is basically an all-in-one tool where you can deal with everything relevant to your web presence, offers a very simple and easy-to-use interface. The section where you will find all your domain names isn't an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain and a web hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones is not going to take you more than a several mouse clicks. You're also going to be able to see with a glance what name servers each and every one of your domain addresses uses currently and if they're the ones needed to direct that domain name to the semi-dedicated account. As an additional feature, we give you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com free of charge. This will give more credibility to your web site, especially if it's a business one, and you could use these name servers for any other domain address which you want to host within the semi-dedicated account as well.