The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name show which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain name, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers world-wide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain address must be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain name is so that the latter is mapped to an IP address and the site content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server discovers which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain address (MX record) so that a message can be delivered to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any change of these sub-records is done with the help of the company whose name servers are used, so you can keep the web hosting and change only your email provider for example. Every single domain address has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, which start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Hosting
If you use a Linux hosting package from our us and you register a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for many domain names at once with several 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 handle your domain address even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for any domain name which is registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks using the innovative, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to see the current NS records for a particular domain and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to permit you to control any domain easily even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you may even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain name under which they are set up, but also for any other domain address that you'd like to host in the same account. This option is very handy if you have clients of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available totally free.