The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain name is the easiest way to direct 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), etcetera, if you wish to modify any 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 address reveal the DNS servers that 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 Internet domain you are attempting to access. In this way the site you will see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a hosting provider is going to use depends completely on their preference.

NS Records in Website Hosting

In case you register a domain name within a website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to handle its name servers with ease. This is accomplished through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with only a few mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domains simultaneously, which could save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domains that you'd like to forward to a different service provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. We enable you to set up private name servers for any domain address registered with our company and unlike many other companies we do not charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so if 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 every domain name that is registered through our company could be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the leading-edge, although easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that is included with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to view the current NS records for a given domain address and to verify if they're the ones that are needed for the domain name to be forwarded 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 name with ease even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you would like to host in the exact same account. This option is very useful if you have customers of your own and you would like their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is totally free.