The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain is the most effective 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), etcetera, so, in case you want to edit some of these records, you're going to be able to do it through 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 you are attempting to reach. This way the web site that you're going to see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider is going to use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

When you use a cloud hosting plan from our us and you register a new domain address in the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you're going to be able to control its NS records easily through the Hepsia web hosting CP, provided with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domain names at once with several clicks. This is done using the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it is the first you have ever registered. It requires merely 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 name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of mouse clicks more you'll 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 would like the new NS records to forward to.