The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain name is the most effective way to point 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, so if you want to modify some of these records, you'll 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 get the DNS records of the domain you want to access. In this way the website that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least two NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a hosting provider is going to use depends entirely on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Website Hosting

In the event you register a domain name in a shared website hosting account from our company, you will be able to handle its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and with a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain names simultaneously, which could save you time and efforts if you have a huge number of domains that you would like to point to another provider. You can enter multiple name servers depending on how many the other provider gives you. Furthermore we allow you to create private name servers for each and every Internet domain registered through our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for example, all domains added to the account on our end can use these name servers.