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 hosting provider for your domain is the most effective way to point it to their system and all its sub-records will be handled 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 want to modify any one of these records, you'll be able to do it through their system. Put simply, 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 retrieve the DNS records of the domain name you are attempting to reach. In this way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain address has at least two NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a web hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered in a cloud website hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform will take you just moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia CP, you will be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain name, but even of numerous domain addresses at once when you want to point them all to the same webhosting provider. The very same steps will also permit you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform since the transfer process doesn't change the name servers automatically and the domain names will still direct to the old host. If you wish to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with only a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company website, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain address to the same account too, not only the one they're created for.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you go for a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you're going to be able to handle the NS records of every domain name registered inside it with ease. The Hepsia CP, which is in essence an all-in-one tool for you to deal with everything associated with your web presence, offers a very simple and intuitive interface. The section where you will find your domains is not an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain name and a web hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones will not take you more than a several clicks. You will also be able to see with a glance what name servers each and every one of your domain names uses at the moment and if they are the ones required to direct that domain name to the semi-dedicated account. As an additional feature, we offer you the opportunity to create child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com at no extra cost. This will give more credibility to your site, particularly when it is a business one, and you could use these name servers for every other domain that you'd like to host in the semi-dedicated account as well.