The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain address is the most convenient way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), and so forth, if you would like to edit any one of these records, you're going to be able to do it via their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain you are trying to access. That way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you register a domain name inside a web hosting account from our company, you'll be able to handle its name servers effortlessly. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even numerous domains at a time, which could save you time and efforts in case you have a lot of domains that you would like to redirect to another service provider. You can enter many name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Additionally we enable you to set up private name servers for each domain address registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.