The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers globally where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain ought to be retrieved. That way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the web site content is required from the correct location, a mail relay server finds out which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be sent to the needed mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is performed using the company whose name servers are used, so you're able to keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Each Internet domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting
In the event you register a domain name inside a cloud website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to control its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domain names simultaneously, which will save you time and efforts if you have a large number of domains that you would like to point to an alternative service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. We also allow you to set up private name servers for every domain registered using our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to redirect any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs in particular, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.