The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain is the simplest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records will 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), etc, if you would like to modify any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it by using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain 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 name you are trying to access. In this way the web site you'll 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 isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a website hosting provider is going to use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you register a domain name within a web hosting account from our company, you will be able to manage its name servers without difficulty. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with a few clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain names at the same time, which can save you considerable time and efforts if you have a large number of domains that you'd like to point to a different provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. We also allow you to create private name servers for each and every Internet domain registered with our company and unlike many other providers we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for instance, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will help you handle your domain names easily even if you have never used a hosting account or a domain name up to now. Changing the NS records for each domain address registered with our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are right or not as to forward that domain address to our cloud hosting platform is also quite simple and requires just several clicks. You are also going to be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domains as an element of the free DNS management services that we offer you with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain address you accommodate inside the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their web sites, using this feature will give you much more credibility as a business.