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 particular hosting provider for your domain is the most convenient way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be taken care of 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, if you need to change any of these records, you are going to be able to do it via their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name point out 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 Internet domain you are attempting to reach. This way the site you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain address has at least two NS records. There is 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 Website Hosting
If you use a website hosting from our us and you add a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you'll be able to manage its NS records easily via the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domains at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It requires simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to forward a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you will 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 every company that you would like the new NS records to direct to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you register a new domain in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you're going to be able to update its NS records as needed without any issues even if you haven't had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have a number of domain names within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which will save you a great deal of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they're the proper ones or not in order for the domain address to be directed to the account that you've got on our advanced cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to set up private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not just for that domain name, but also for every other one that you wish to point to our cloud platform.