The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Simply, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL in an Internet browser, your personal computer asks the DNS servers around the globe 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 name 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 discovers which server handles the e-mails for the domain (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the right mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is conducted with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so that you can keep the website hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain address has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered inside a shared hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you just seconds. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia CP, you are going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of multiple domain names at the same time if you want to point them all to the same webhosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also permit you to point newly transferred domains to our platform given that the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still direct to the old host. If you need to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company site, for instance, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain to the same account too, not just the one they are created for.