The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, point out which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain is the easiest way to point it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be managed 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 wish to modify some of these records, you will be able to do it via their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to reach. That way the site that you're going to see is going to be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There's no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a cloud hosting plan from our company and you register a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you will be able to manage its NS records with ease through the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domain addresses at once with several 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 even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address 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 domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every company that you want the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain name within a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you are going to be able to update its NS records as needed 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 administration tool, provided with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have many domain addresses in the account, you are going to be able to update all of them at once, which can save you quite a lot of time and clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers which a domain uses and if they are the correct ones or not for the domain address to be directed to the account that you have on our innovative cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will also 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 any other one that you want to point to our cloud platform.