The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out 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 in a browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address should be retrieved. 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 web site content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain name has a minimum of 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as 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 another provider, you are going to be able to handle its NS records with ease using the Hepsia website hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domain names at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to handle your domain name even if it is the first you have ever registered. It takes merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you want the new NS records to direct to.