The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address ought to be retrieved. With this 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 website content is required 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 a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every single domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you register a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you are going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for many domains at a time with several 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 simple to handle your domain address even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It requires simply a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.