The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, point out which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain name is the most convenient way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will be handled 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 edit some 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 name point out 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 domain name you are trying to reach. In this way the site that you'll see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain name has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a website hosting provider is going to use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

When you use a Linux shared website hosting from our us and you add a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you're going to be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia web hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domains simultaneously with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to manage your domain address even if it's the first you have ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each provider that you would like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for every single domain that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the leading-edge, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as simple to view the current NS records for a particular domain and to check if they're the ones that are required for the domain name to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to control any domain address easily even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you would like to host in the very same account. This feature is very handy when you have clients of your own and you want their websites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.