The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be handled on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etc, so if you need to modify any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it via their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name reveal 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 Internet domain you are attempting to reach. That way the web site you'll see is going to be retrieved from the right 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 practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a host company will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Web Hosting

When you use a web hosting from our company and you register a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you're going to be able to control its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes 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 a group of domain addresses at the same time with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control your domain name even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It requires merely a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each company that you want the new NS records to forward to.