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 specific host company for your domain name is the most effective way to point 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), etcetera, so, in case you need to modify some of these records, you'll be able to do it through their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain address 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 get the DNS records of the domain name you are attempting to access. This way the site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a website hosting provider is going to use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a cloud plan from our company and you add a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you're going to be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for several domain names simultaneously with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to handle your domain address even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes just 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 name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every provider that you would like the new NS records to point to.