The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain is the easiest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be taken care of 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, if you want to change any of these records, you are going to be able to do it through their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address show the DNS servers which 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 trying to access. That way the site you will see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each and every domain has at least two NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a host company will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

If you use a Linux cloud hosting from our company and you register a new domain name inside the account or transfer an existing one from a different provider, you will be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia web hosting CP, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain address or even for many domain addresses at the same time with several clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that's a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it easy to handle your domain even if it is the first one you've ever registered. It takes merely a mouse click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to direct a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IPs of every provider that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.