The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name point out which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. In simple terms, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL in a browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must 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 requested from the correct location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted using the company whose name servers are used, permitting you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every Internet domain has at least 2 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 in a cloud website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform is going to take you only seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia CP, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of several domain addresses simultaneously when you would like to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domain names to our platform given that the transfer process does not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still direct to the old host. If you'd like to set up private name servers for a domain name registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company website, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain address to the same account too, not just the one they're created for.