The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain is the most convenient way to forward 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), and so forth, if you need to modify any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to access. This way the website you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a web hosting provider will use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you register a domain name in a cloud website hosting account from our company, you will be able to take care of its name servers effortlessly. This can be done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with a few mouse clicks you will be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domains at once, which can save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a huge number of domain names that you'd like to redirect to an alternative service provider. You can enter many name servers depending on how many the other company provides you with. Additionally we allow you to create private name servers for each domain name registered through our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything extra for this service. The new NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs for instance, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

When you register a new domain address inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar provider, you're going to be able to update its NS records as required without any troubles even if you have not had a domain name of your own before. The process takes a few clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, provided with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have a number of domain addresses within the account, you are going to be able to update all of them simultaneously, which will save you lots of time and mouse clicks. Additionally you can see with ease the name servers which a domain uses and if they are the correct ones or not in order for the domain address to be directed to the account which you have on our advanced cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even permit you to create private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain address, but also for any other one that you intend to direct to our cloud platform.