The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, point out which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain name is the simplest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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, so, in case you would like to change any of these records, you're going to be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address 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 get the DNS records of the domain you want to access. This way the site that you will see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain address has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

If you use a Linux shared website hosting package from our company and you add a new domain name in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you'll be able to handle its NS records with ease through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You'll be able to change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain or even for several domains at once with several mouse clicks. This is done using 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 address even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It requires only a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with only a couple of clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for each of the domain addresses that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of each company that you would like the new NS records to point to.