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 particular hosting provider for your domain address is the simplest 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), and so on, so, in case you wish to change any of these records, you are going to be able to do it via their system. Put simply, 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 you want to reach. This way the website you will see is going to be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least two NS records. There's no practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you register a domain name within a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll be able to control its name servers easily. This is done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of one or even several domain addresses at a time, which could save you considerable time and efforts if you have a lot of domain addresses that you'd like to forward to a different service provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company gives you. Additionally we enable you to set up private name servers for every single domain address registered through our company and in contrast to many other companies we don't charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to forward any other domain name to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for instance, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.