The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain is the simplest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records will be handled 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, if you would like to modify any of these records, you're going to be able to do it via their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name point out the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain name you want to access. In this way the website that you're going to see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least 2 NS records. There's no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

The innovative Hepsia CP, offered with with our shared website hosting plans, will permit you to take care of the name servers of each and every domain name registered through us with just a few clicks, so even if you have never had a web hosting plan or a domain before, you'll not encounter any difficulties. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, has a very user-friendly interface and it will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain addresses together. In addition we provide you with the chance to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a pair of IP addresses - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to forward the domain address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you'll use the new records to forward the domain address to their system. Different from other companies, we do not charge extra for providing this additional DNS management service.