The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, point out which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific hosting provider for your domain is the easiest way to direct it to their system and all its sub-records will 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), etcetera, if you would like to change any of these records, you're going to be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, 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 get the DNS records of the domain you want to access. In this way the site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a web hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

Taking care of the NS records for any domain name registered inside a shared hosting account on our state of the art cloud platform is going to take you just moments. Via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia Control Panel, you'll be able to change the name servers not just of one domain, but even of several domain names at the same time in case that you intend to direct them all to the same hosting company. Identical steps will also permit you to point newly transferred domains to our platform since the transfer procedure will not change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still point to the old host. If you want to set up private name servers for a domain address registered on our end, you'll be able to do that with only a few clicks and with no additional charge, so in case you have a company web site, as an example, it'll have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for forwarding any other domain address to the same account as well, not only the one they're created for.