The NS (Name Server) records of a domain reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the range of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL inside a web browser, your laptop or computer asks the DNS servers worldwide where the domain address is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In this way a browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain address is so that the latter is mapped to an Internet protocol address and the website content is requested from the right location, a mail relay server detects which server takes care of the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) to ensure a message can be forwarded to the appropriate mailbox, and so on. Any modification of these sub-records is done using the company whose name servers are employed, so you can keep the website hosting and switch only your email provider for example. Each Internet domain has a minimum of two NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix such as NS or DNS.
NS Records in Cloud Hosting
Controlling the NS records for any domain registered within a cloud hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you merely seconds. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll be able to change the name servers not only of one domain name, but even of several domain names at a time if you need to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform as the transfer procedure is not going to 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 an Internet domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company web site, as an example, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account also, besides the one they are created for.