The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain is the simplest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), etc, so if you want to modify any of these records, you will be able to do it via their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to access. In this way the site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least two NS records. There isn't any sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a website hosting provider will use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a cloud web hosting service from our company and you add a new domain name inside 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 Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain names at the same time 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 simple to control your domain even if it is the first you have ever registered. It requires only a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you want the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with extremely user-friendly interface, that will allow you to control your domain addresses easily even if you have not used a hosting account or a domain name previously. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered through our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to direct that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also quite easy and requires as little as a couple of clicks. You will also be able to register child name servers under any of your domain addresses as a part of the free DNS management services that we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature will give you more credibility as a business.