The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain name is the simplest 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, so if you wish to modify any one of these records, you'll be able to do it using 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 retrieve the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to access. That way the website you'll see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared web hosting products, will permit you to handle the name servers of each and every domain address registered through our company with only a couple of clicks, so even though you may haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain before, you won't encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and it'll enable you to edit the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain names simultaneously. We also give you the ability to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for any domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IP addresses - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to direct the domain to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to direct the domain address to their system. In contrast to other providers, we don't charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for any domain address that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks from the sophisticated, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to determine if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to control any domain effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain name under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host within the very same account. This feature is very useful if you have customers of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available 100 % free.