The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must 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 IP and the site content is required from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be sent to the right mailbox, etc. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

When you use a shared web hosting plan from our company and you add a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to control its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain names simultaneously with several mouse 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 control your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every provider that you want the new NS records to point to.