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 name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. This way a web 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 site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server manages the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so that a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each and every domain has no less than 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

The outstanding Hepsia CP, offered with with our cloud hosting products, will enable you to handle the name servers of every domain address registered through our company with simply a few mouse clicks, so even when you haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain address before, you will not encounter any problems. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain addresses simultaneously. We also provide you with the chance to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each and every domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IP addresses - either ours, if you are going to use the child NS to point the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to forward the domain name to their system. Different from other companies, we do not charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.