The NS (Name Server) records of a domain name reveal which DNS servers are authoritative for its zone. Essentially, the zone is the collection of all records for the domain address, so when you open a URL within a web browser, your PC asks the DNS servers around the globe where the domain name is hosted and from which servers the DNS records for the domain name should be retrieved. In this way a web browser finds out what the A or AAAA record of the domain 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 discovers which server deals with the e-mails for the domain name (MX record) so a message can be forwarded to the correct mailbox, and so forth. Any modification of these sub-records is done through the company whose name servers are employed, so that you can keep the web hosting and switch only your email provider for instance. Every domain has at least 2 NS records - primary and secondary, that start with a prefix like NS or DNS.
NS Records in Cloud Hosting
When you use a Linux cloud hosting package from our company and you include a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you are going to be able to manage its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domain names simultaneously with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to handle your domain even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes only a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.