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 specific hosting provider for your domain address is the simplest way to point it to their system and all its sub-records will 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, so if you would like to change some of these records, you are going to be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain point out 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 access. In this way the web site that you will see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain address has at least two NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a web hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain address registered inside a shared hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform is going to take you merely seconds. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool inside the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll be able to change the name servers not only of one domain, but even of multiple domain names at the same time whenever you want to point them all to the same website hosting provider. The very same steps will also allow you to direct newly transferred domain addresses to our platform because the transfer procedure doesn't change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still redirect to the old host. If you would like to create private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so when you have a company site, for example, it will have more credibility if it employs name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for pointing any other domain to the same account too, besides the one they are created for.