The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain is the most convenient way to point 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 wish to modify any one of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to access. This way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider will use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered inside a shared web hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you only moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you'll be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of numerous domains simultaneously if you want to direct them all to the same hosting provider. The very same steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domain addresses to our platform for the reason that transfer process won't change the name servers automatically and the domains will still redirect to the old host. If you would like to create private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company website, for example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain to the same account also, not only the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain address within a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you'll be able to update its NS records as required without any troubles even if you haven't had a domain address of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, which comes with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have many domain names in the account, you'll be able to update all of them simultaneously, which could save you a lot of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the proper ones or not in order for the domain name to be forwarded to the account which you have on our sophisticated cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will even allow you to set up private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for every other one that you intend to point to our cloud platform.