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 hosting provider for your domain address is the simplest way to forward 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), etcetera, if you need to change some of these records, you will be able to do it through their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers which 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 Internet domain you are trying to access. This way the website that you're going to see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain has at least 2 NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Website Hosting
If you register a domain name within a shared website hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to take care of its name servers without difficulty. This is done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domains at once, which can save you time and efforts if you have a lot of domain addresses that you would like to forward to a different provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we allow you to set up private name servers for every single domain address registered with our company and unlike many other companies we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to forward any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for instance, all domains included in the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for each and every domain name that is registered through us could be changed with no more than a few clicks using the advanced, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a given domain and to determine if they're the ones that are required 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 handle any domain easily 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 name under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you'd like to host in the same account. This option is very beneficial if you have clients of your own and you want their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is 100 % free.