NS Records

Discover just what NS records are and why they're critical for virtually every domain.

The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the group of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your 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 ought to be retrieved. 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 IP and the website content is requested from the correct location, a mail relay server discovers which server deals with the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are employed, allowing you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Each 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 Shared Web Hosting

The innovative Hepsia Control Panel, included with with our shared web hosting packages, will allow you to handle the name servers of every single domain registered through us with just a few clicks, so even when you have not had a website hosting plan or a domain name before, you will not encounter any troubles. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain names simultaneously. In addition we offer you the ability to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every single domain registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a pair of IPs - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to forward 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 forward the domain name to their system. Different from other companies, we don't charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.