The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain name is the simplest way to point 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), etc, if you want to modify any of these records, you'll be able to do it through 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 Internet domain you are trying to access. That way the web site that you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a host company will use depends solely on their preference.
NS Records in Hosting
Controlling the NS records for any domain name registered inside a hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you only moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain name, but even of numerous domain names at a time if you want to forward them all to the same website hosting provider. Exactly the same steps will also allow you to point newly transferred domain names to our platform for the reason that transfer process is not going to change the name servers automatically and the domains will still forward to the old host. If you'd like to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you're going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you decide to have a company site, for instance, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain to the same account also, besides the one they're created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for any domain that's registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the advanced, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to see the current NS records for a specific domain address and to verify if they are the ones that are needed for the domain name to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to manage any domain name effortlessly even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you want, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain that you might want to host inside the same account. This feature is very handy if you have clients of your own and you want their sites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.