The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the group of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In this 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 proper location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure that a message can be sent to the right mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is performed with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain address has a minimum of 2 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, offered with with our shared web hosting products, will permit you to control the name servers of every domain registered through our company with just a few mouse clicks, so even though you may have never had a website hosting plan or a domain name before, you simply won't encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to edit the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain addresses simultaneously. We also offer you the opportunity to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for any domain name registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to forward the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you'll use the new records to redirect the domain name to their system. In contrast to other providers, we don't charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.