The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, point out which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain name is the easiest way to point 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), etc, so if you want to edit any one of these records, you'll be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name show 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 want to reach. That way the website you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what type a host company is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

If you use a Linux hosting from our us and you register a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to manage its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain names at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to handle your domain even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It takes only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any company that you want the new NS records to forward to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you will be able to update its NS records as needed without any difficulties even if you have not had a domain address of your own before. The process takes several clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, included with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have many domains within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at the same time, which will save you quite a lot of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the correct ones or not for the domain to be directed to the account that you have got on our advanced cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will even enable you to create private name servers under any domain registered within the account and use them not just for that domain name, but also for every other one that you want to point to our cloud platform.