The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain name is the most effective way to forward 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 on, so if you want to edit any of these records, you will be able to do it by using their system. Put simply, 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 attempting to reach. This way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a web hosting provider is going to use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a cloud web hosting from our company and you add a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to handle its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for many domain addresses at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each company that you'd like the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you go for a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to manage the NS records of every domain registered within it without difficulty. The Hepsia CP, which is in essence an all-in-one tool where you can handle everything related to your web presence, offers a very simple and intuitive interface. The section in which you will find all your domain addresses is not an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain and a hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones is not going to take you more than a few mouse clicks. You'll also be able to see with a glance what name servers each of your domain names uses at the moment and if they're the ones required to point that domain name to the semi-dedicated account. As an added feature, we present you with opportunity to set up child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com totally free. This will give more credibility to your website, particularly when it's a business one, and you may use these name servers for every other domain name that you would like to host in the semi-dedicated account as well.