The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain 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 site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server manages the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is conducted through the company whose name servers are employed, enabling you to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each and every domain address has no less than two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain name registered inside a cloud website hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you just seconds. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not just of one domain, but even of numerous domain names at the same time when you want to forward them all to the same hosting provider. Identical steps will also allow you to forward newly transferred domain addresses to our platform given that the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still direct to the old host. If you want to set up private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company web site, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain to the same account too, not just the one they're created for.