The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific 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 forth, so, in case you wish to edit any of these records, you'll be able to do it by using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain reveal the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the domain you want to reach. In this way the website that you're going to see is going to be retrieved from the right location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least two NS records. There isn't any practical difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider will use depends solely on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Website Hosting

If you register a domain name in a cloud website hosting account from our company, you'll be able to take care of its name servers easily. This can be done through the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with a few mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of a single one or even a number of domains at a time, which will save you time and efforts if you have a lot of domain addresses that you'd like to redirect to another provider. You can enter many name servers depending on how many the other provider provides you with. In addition we permit you to set up private name servers for any domain registered through our company and in contrast to many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The new NS records can be used to point any other domain to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for example, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.