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 given host company for your domain address is the most effective 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), etc, so if you need to change any one of these records, you'll be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name reveal the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the Internet domain you want to reach. This way the website you'll see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a host company will use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

When you use a hosting plan from our company and you register a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you will be able to handle its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for a group of domain addresses at once with several 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 control your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires just a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each company that you want the new NS records to direct to.