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 specific hosting provider for your domain name is the most convenient way to direct 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 on, so if you need to edit any of these records, you will be able to do it via their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain address show the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the Internet domain you want to access. This way the web site that you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least two NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a website hosting provider is going to use depends only on their preference.
NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting
If you use a cloud website hosting from our company and you add a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from another provider, you are going to be able to control its NS records effortlessly using the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for a group of domain names at once with several clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain name even if it's the first you've ever registered. It requires only a click to see what name servers a domain address uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every provider that you would like the new NS records to direct to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers
When you register a new domain name in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you'll be able to update its NS records as required without any issues even if you haven't had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a couple of clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated solutions. If you have multiple domain names within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which could save you quite a lot of time and clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers that a domain address uses and if they're the proper ones or not in order for the domain to be forwarded to the account that you have got on our innovative cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will allow you to set up private name servers under any domain registered within the account and use them not just for that domain name, but also for every other one that you want to direct to our cloud platform.