The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, show which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain address is the most effective way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will 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 if you need to modify any one of these records, you'll be able to do it through their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain name show the DNS servers that are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the Internet domain you are attempting to reach. That way the website you will see is going to be retrieved from the right location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least 2 NS records. There is no sensible 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

In the event you register a domain name inside a cloud hosting account from our company, you will be able to control its name servers easily. This is accomplished via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with just a few mouse clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of one or even numerous domain names at once, which could save you a lot of time and efforts if you have a large number of domain addresses that you would like to point to a different provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Additionally we allow you to create private name servers for each and every domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we do not charge anything more for this service. The newly created 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 if you use our IPs in particular, all domain names added to the account on our end can use these name servers.