The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain is the most effective 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 need to edit some of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. In other words, 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 trying to access. That way the web site you'll see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain name has at least two NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.
NS Records in Hosting
In case you register a domain name within a hosting account from our company, you will be able to manage its name servers effortlessly. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with only a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domain addresses at the same time, which could save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a lot of domain names that you would like to redirect to another provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. Additionally we enable you to create private name servers for any domain registered with our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything extra for this service. The new NS records can be used to direct any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IPs you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for instance, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, which will allow you to manage your domain addresses effortlessly even if you have never used a hosting account or a domain up to now. Changing the NS records for each domain registered using our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to forward that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and takes just a couple of clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under any of your domains as part of the free DNS administration services which we provide 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 in the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their websites, using this feature will give you more credibility as a business.