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 specific hosting provider for your domain name is the simplest way to forward 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), and so on, so if you want to edit any one of these records, you will be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain you are trying to reach. That way the site you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting

If you register a domain name inside a cloud web hosting account from our company, you're going to be able to handle its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain names at once, which could save you time and efforts when you have a huge number of domain addresses you want to redirect to an alternative service provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. We also allow you to create private name servers for each domain address registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we don't charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain 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 included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register a new domain inside a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you'll be able to update its NS records as needed without any difficulties even if you haven't had a domain of your own before. The process takes a couple of mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly control tool, provided with our semi-dedicated packages. If you have several domains inside the account, you will be able to update all of them simultaneously, which will save you lots of time and clicks. You can also see with ease the name servers that a domain uses and if they're the proper ones or not for the domain address to be pointed to the account which you have on our innovative cloud hosting platform. Hepsia will permit you to create private name servers under any domain address registered inside the account and use them not just for that domain, but also for any other one that you wish to point to our cloud platform.