The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain is the simplest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will be taken care of 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, in case you need to modify any one of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain 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 are trying to reach. This way the website you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers usually 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 what kind a web hosting provider will use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

When you use a Linux shared web hosting from our company and you include a new domain within the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you are going to be able to control its NS records effortlessly via the Hepsia website 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 a group of domains at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control your domain even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It takes just a 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 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 IPs of each company that you want the new NS records to point to.