The NS (Name Server) records of a domain point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the selection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers globally where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. That way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the website content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has at least two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you include a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to control its NS records easily using the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domains at once with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address 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 of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each provider that you would like the new NS records to forward to.