The NS (Name Server) records of a domain show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain, so when you open a URL inside 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 ought to be retrieved. That way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain is so that the latter is mapped to an IP and the web site content is required from the right location, a mail relay server finds out which server handles the emails for the domain (MX record) to ensure that a message can be delivered to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, allowing you to keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for instance. Every domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
If you use a shared hosting service from our company and you register a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you will be able to manage its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain names at once with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to manage your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every company that you'd like the new NS records to point to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, which will permit you to handle your domain addresses easily even if you have never used a hosting account or a domain address in the past. Changing the NS records for any domain registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are accurate or not as to direct that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires as little as a couple of clicks. You are also going to be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS administration services that we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain name that you accommodate in the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their sites, using this feature will give you a lot more credibility as a business.