The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate 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 easiest way to point it to their system and all its sub-records will be managed on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etc, if you want to edit any of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain point out the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to reach. In this way the site you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There's no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a host company will use depends only on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Web Hosting
The outstanding Hepsia CP, which comes with our shared web hosting plans, allows you to take care of the name servers of each and every domain registered through us with only a few mouse clicks, so even when you have not had a web hosting plan or a domain before, you will not encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, features a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to change the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain addresses all at once. In addition we offer you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain name registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you will use the child NS to forward the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you will use the new records to direct the domain name to their system. Different from other providers, we do not charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for every domain name that's registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks via the advanced, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It's just as effortless to see the current NS records for a specific domain address and to check if they are the ones that are necessary for the domain address to be directed 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 would like, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain address under which they're set up, but also for any other domain that you would like to host within the very same account. This feature is very useful when you have clients of your own and you wish their web sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is totally free.