The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain address is the easiest way to point 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), etcetera, so, in case you would like to edit any one of these records, you're going to be able to do it through their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain show 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 attempting to reach. This way the web site that you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a host company will use depends completely on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
Managing the NS records for any domain registered within a shared hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform will take you merely seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not only of one domain address, but even of multiple domain addresses simultaneously if you would like to point them all to the same website hosting provider. The exact same steps will also enable you to point newly transferred domain addresses to our platform because the transfer process does not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still forward to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a couple of clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company website, for example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain address to the same account as well, not just the one they are created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for each and every domain address that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks from the leading-edge, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to view the current NS records for a particular domain address and to verify if they're the ones that are needed for the domain address to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to handle any domain name effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you would like, you may also 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 that you would like to host inside the very same account. This feature is very useful if you have clients of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is available absolutely free.