The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate 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 easiest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records will 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 modify any of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name point out the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the domain you want to reach. This way the web site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain address has at least two NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a website hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

When you use a hosting from our company and you include a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you will be able to handle its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domain names at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to manage your domain name even if it is the first you've ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each company that you want the new NS records to direct to.