The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain address 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 need to edit any of these records, you will be able to do it by using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name point out the DNS servers which 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 domain name you are attempting to access. In this way the web site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a host company is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

When you use a cloud plan from our us and you register a new domain address within the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you're going to be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia website hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain names at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to manage your domain even if it's the first you've ever registered. It takes merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, which will help you handle your domains easily even if you have not used a hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each and every domain name registered with our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are right or not as to forward that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and takes just a few clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domain addresses as an element of the free DNS administration services which we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain address which you accommodate in the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, using this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.