The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, reveal which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records will be taken care of on their end. This includes A (the IP address of the server/website), MX (mail server), TXT (free text), SRV (services), CNAME (forwarding), etc, so if you would like to change any of these records, you'll be able to do it via their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the domain name you are attempting to reach. In this way the website you'll see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least two NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you register a domain name in a cloud website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to control its name servers with ease. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with just a couple of mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even a number of domain names simultaneously, which could save you time and efforts when you have a huge number of domain names that you'd like to direct to an alternative service provider. You can enter many name servers depending on how many the other company provides you with. Additionally we enable you to set up private name servers for each domain registered with our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything extra for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain 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 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 in a semi-dedicated server account or transfer an existing one from another registrar company, you'll be able to update its NS records as required without any difficulties even if you have never had a domain of your own before. The process takes a few mouse clicks in Hepsia - the user-friendly management tool, provided with our semi-dedicated plans. If you have multiple domain names within the account, you're going to be able to update all of them at once, which can save you a lot of time and clicks. Also you can see with ease the name servers which a domain name uses and if they're the right ones or not as a way for the domain name to be forwarded to the account that you have on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform. Hepsia will even allow you to set up private name servers under any domain name registered inside the account and use them not only for that domain name, but also for every other one that you want to point to our cloud platform.