The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to forward 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), and so on, so if you want to change some of these records, you will be able to do it via their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name reveal the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain name you want to access. That way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a host company will use depends completely on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Website Hosting
Taking care of the NS records for any domain registered in a shared website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform will take you only moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia CP, you'll be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain, but even of numerous domains at a time whenever you need to forward them all to the same hosting provider. Identical steps will also enable you to direct newly transferred domain names to our platform given that the transfer process will not change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still direct to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for an Internet domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company web site, as an example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain to the same account as well, not only the one they are created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for every single domain that's registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the innovative, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to see the current NS records for a given domain address and to verify if they are the ones that are necessary 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 allow you to control any domain address easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you want, 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're set up, but also for any other domain that you might want to host in the same account. This feature is very useful if you have clients of your own and you want their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is free of charge.