The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name 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 IP address and the web site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server finds out which server deals with the emails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, etc. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, enabling you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Each domain name has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Website Hosting
Managing the NS records for any domain registered within a website hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you merely seconds. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia CP, you'll be able to change the name servers not just of one domain address, but even of multiple domains at the same time in case that you need to forward them all to the same hosting company. The very same steps will also permit you to forward newly transferred domain names to our platform because the transfer process does not change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still forward to the old host. If you wish to set up private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with just a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company web site, for example, it'll have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain to the same account too, not only the one they're created for.