The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain name is the easiest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), and so forth, so, in case you would like to edit any one of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name 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 you want to reach. In this way the site that you will see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain address has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.
NS Records in Web Hosting
If you register a domain name within a web hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to control its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with only a few mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domain names at a time, which can save you a lot of time and efforts when you have a large number of domain addresses that you'd like to redirect to an alternative provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other provider offers you. In addition we permit you to set up private name servers for every single Internet domain registered through our company and unlike many other companies we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain name to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so every time you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
The name servers for each domain which is registered through us can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks through the sophisticated, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to verify if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain to be pointed to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to allow you to manage any domain address easily 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 only for the domain address under which they're set up, but also for any other domain address that you might want to host in the exact same account. This option is very handy when you have clients of your own and you wish their sites to use your own name servers instead of our default ones. The service is absolutely free.