The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain name is the easiest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), etc, so if you wish to change any of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain address show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the domain you are trying to access. That way the website that you're going to see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

In the event you register a domain name inside a hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to take care of its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with a few clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even several domain names at once, which could save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domain names that you would like to redirect to another provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. In addition we allow you to create private name servers for every single domain name registered through our company and unlike many other companies we do not charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to forward any other domain to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs in particular, all domain addresses added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain name inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you're going to be able to update its NS records as needed without any difficulties even if you haven't had a domain of your own before. The process takes a few clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, provided with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have multiple domains in the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which will save you a great deal of time and clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain name uses and if they are the correct ones or not as a way for the domain address to be pointed to the account that you have on our innovative cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will allow you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for any other one that you want to direct to our cloud platform.