The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, show which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain address is the easiest way to direct 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), and so forth, so if you need to edit any of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain name 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 you are attempting to access. In this 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 domain has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Web Hosting

In the event you register a domain name inside a web hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to take care of its name servers without difficulty. This is done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a couple of mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domains simultaneously, which can save you time and efforts if you have a lot of domain addresses that you'd like to point to an alternative service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. Furthermore we allow you to create private name servers for every domain name registered via our company and unlike many other providers we do not charge anything extra for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for every domain address that's registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few clicks via the leading-edge, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to see the current NS records for a given domain and to check if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain name to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to handle any domain name with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host in the same account. This feature is very useful if you have customers of your own and you want their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is available totally free.