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 given host company for your domain is the easiest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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, so if you would like to edit any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain address show the DNS servers that 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 access. That way the website that you're going to see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a host company will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

In case you register a domain name within a shared website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to take care of its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with just a couple of clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domain names at a time, which could save you considerable time and efforts in case you have a large number of domain names you want to redirect to a different service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. We also permit you to create private name servers for any domain name registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything additional for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to redirect any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for every domain address that's registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few clicks through the advanced, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to check if they're the ones that are needed for the domain address 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 with ease even if you have never dealt with such matters before. If you want, you may also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're created, but also for any other domain that you might want to host within the exact same account. This option is very beneficial if you have clients of your own and you wish their websites to use your own name servers in lieu of our default ones. The service is totally free.