The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Basically, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside an Internet browser, your computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In this way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the web site content is required from the proper location, a mail relay server discovers which server handles the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each and every Internet domain has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

The outstanding Hepsia CP, included with with our cloud hosting plans, will allow you to take care of the name servers of every single domain registered through our company with simply a couple of mouse clicks, so even though you may haven't had a web hosting plan or a domain before, you'll not encounter any problems. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and will permit you to edit the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain addresses all at once. We give you the ability to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain name registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IP addresses - either ours, if you're going to use the child NS to direct the domain to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to redirect the domain address to their system. Different from other companies, we do not charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.