The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, point out which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain address is the simplest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will be taken care of on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etcetera, so if you want to edit some of these records, you'll be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name point out the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to access. This way the site you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider will use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Website Hosting

When you use a Linux website hosting package from our company and you include a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records easily using the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a number of domain addresses simultaneously with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point 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 addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every company that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any issues even if you have not had a domain address of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many different domain names inside the account, you will be able to update all of them at the same time, which will save you lots of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the correct ones or not for the domain name to be directed to the account that you have on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to set up private name servers under any domain registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain name, but also for every other one that you would like to direct to our cloud platform.