The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain is the simplest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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're going to be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address show 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 Internet domain you are trying to access. In this way the website you'll see is going to 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's no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a host company will use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

If you use a shared web hosting from our us and you include a new domain address inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to control its NS records easily via the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for several domain addresses at once with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it easy to control your domain even if it's the first one you've ever registered. It takes simply a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they're the correct ones to forward a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a few clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of each and every company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.