The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain address is the easiest way to point 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), etcetera, so, in case you would like to modify some of these records, you're going to be able to do it via their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name reveal the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to access. In this way the website you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least 2 NS records. There's no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider is going to use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

If you register a domain name in a hosting account from our company, you'll be able to control its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with just a couple of mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domain names at once, which will save you considerable time and efforts if you have a huge number of domains that you'd like to point to an alternative service provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. We permit you to create private name servers for each and every domain address registered via our company and unlike many other companies we don't charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to direct any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.