The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain name is the most convenient 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), etc, so, in case you would like to edit some of these records, you are going to be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address 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. This way the site that you will see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain has at least 2 NS records. There's no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a host company will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Website Hosting

If you use a Linux website hosting from our company and you include a new domain inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you will be able to control its NS records effortlessly through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain addresses at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to handle your domain address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires simply a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each and every company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.