The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, point out which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given hosting provider for your domain 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 modify any of these records, you're going to be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name reveal the DNS servers which 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 domain name you are attempting to reach. That way the website you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least two NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a website hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.
NS Records in Web Hosting
In case you register a domain name within a web hosting account from our company, you'll be able to take care of its name servers easily. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting CP and with only a few clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of one or even multiple domain names simultaneously, which can save you considerable time and efforts when you have a lot of domain names that you would like to direct to a different service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. In addition we permit you to create private name servers for every Internet domain registered using our company and in contrast to many other companies we don't charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so each time you use our IPs for instance, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered through Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, that will help you manage your domains effortlessly even if you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain address up to now. Changing the NS records for each and every domain name registered using our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are accurate or not as to forward that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and requires just several clicks. You're also going to be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domains as a part of the free DNS administration services we provide with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for each and every domain name which you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their sites, employing this feature is going to give you far more credibility as a business.