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 given host company for your domain address is the most convenient way to point 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), and so on, so if you wish to modify any one of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address point out the DNS servers that 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 reach. This way the site that you're going to see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a website hosting provider is going to use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain registered within a cloud website hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform will take you only moments. Using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia Control Panel, you're going to be able to change the name servers not just of a single domain, but even of multiple domain addresses at the same time when you need to forward them all to the same hosting provider. The very same steps will also allow you to forward newly transferred domain names to our platform as the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domains will still forward to the old host. If you would like to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with only a couple of mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company website, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain to the same account also, not only the one they are created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every single domain address that's registered through us can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the sophisticated, though easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to see the current NS records for a specific domain name and to verify if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain address to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to handle any domain name effortlessly even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you want, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they're created, but also for any other domain that you'd like to host in the exact same account. This option is very handy when you have clients of your own and you would like their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.