The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain address is the easiest 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), and so forth, if you wish to modify any of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain 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 obtain the DNS records of the Internet domain you want to access. That way the website that you will see is going to be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a hosting provider will use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

In the event you register a domain name within a shared hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to take care of its name servers effortlessly. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a couple of mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even several domains at the same time, which could save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a large number of domain addresses that you would like to direct to a different service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. Furthermore we enable you to set up private name servers for each and every Internet domain registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs in particular, all domain addresses added to the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

The name servers for each and every domain address which is registered through our company may be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the advanced, though easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as easy to view the current NS records for a particular domain address and to check if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain to be directed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to manage any domain name with ease even if you have not 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 address under which they are created, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host inside the exact same account. This feature is very beneficial if you have customers of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is 100 % free.