The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain name is the easiest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), etc, if you wish to change some of these records, you're going to be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address reveal the DNS servers which 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 are trying to access. This way the site you will see is going to be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least two NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider is going to use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud web hosting service from our us and you register a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for many domain names at once 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 simple to manage your domain even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes simply a 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 few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each company that you'd like the new NS records to point to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

When you register a new domain address in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you will be able to update its NS records as needed without any problems even if you have never had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly administration tool, included with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have many domains inside the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which will save you quite a lot of time and clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers that a domain address uses and if they're the proper ones or not as a way for the domain address to be directed to the account that you have on our sophisticated cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered in the account and use them not just for that domain address, but also for every other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.