The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, show which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain address is the most effective way to direct 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 wish to edit some of these records, you'll be able to do it via 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 get the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to reach. That way the website that you're going to see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a web hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Hosting

If you use a Linux hosting package from our company and you add a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you will be able to control its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You are able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for many domains at the same time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to manage your domain name even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It requires only a mouse click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to direct a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you are going to even be able to register private name servers for any of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every provider that you want the new NS records to direct to.