The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will 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), etcetera, if you want to modify some of these records, you're going to be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address 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 name you are trying to access. In this way the site you will see is going to be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least two NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

In the event you register a domain name within a cloud website hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to take care of its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with a few mouse clicks you will be able to update the NS records of a single one or even multiple domain names at the same time, which could save you considerable time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain names you want to point to a different service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. We also permit you to create private name servers for any Internet domain registered with 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 IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs in particular, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with highly user-friendly interface, that will enable you to manage your domain addresses without difficulty even when you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain address up to now. Changing the NS records for any domain address registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to forward that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and requires only a couple of mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under every one of your domains as a part of the free DNS administration services we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain address that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.