The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain name is the simplest way to direct 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), and so forth, if you wish to change some of these records, you're going to be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address point out the DNS servers which 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 Internet domain you are trying to access. That way the website you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least two NS records. There is no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

When you use a Linux hosting plan from our company and you add a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to handle its NS records with ease through the Hepsia hosting CP, offered 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 number of domain addresses at once 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 will make it simple to manage your domain name even if it's the first you have ever registered. It requires just a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every domain address which is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the leading-edge, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to see the current NS records for a given domain name and to verify if they're the ones that are needed for the domain to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain easily even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you want, 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're created, but also for any other domain address that you would like to host within the very same account. This option is very handy when you have clients of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available free of charge.