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 given host company for your domain name is the simplest way to point it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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 if you need to modify any of these records, you will be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain point out the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you attempt to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain you are attempting to reach. In this way the website you will see will be retrieved from the right location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.

NS Records in Web Hosting

If you register a domain name in a web 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 Control Panel and with just a few clicks you're going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even several domains at once, which can save you a lot of time and efforts in case you have a lot of domain names that you would like to forward to a different provider. You can enter several name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Furthermore we permit you to set up private name servers for each domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we don't charge anything extra for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to direct any other domain to the hosting platform of the company whose IP addresses you have used during the process, so when you use our IPs for instance, all domains included in the account on our end can use these name servers.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you invest in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you are going to be able to handle the NS records of every domain registered within it without difficulty. The Hepsia Control Panel, which is essentially an all-in-one tool for you to handle everything relevant to your web presence, offers a very simple and user-friendly interface. The section where you will find all of your domains isn't an exception, so even if you haven't had a domain and a website hosting account before, updating the name servers or entering additional ones won't take you more than a several mouse clicks. You'll also be able to see with a glance what name servers each and every one of your domain addresses uses at the moment and if they are the ones required to direct that domain to the semi-dedicated account. As an added feature, we offer you the opportunity to create child name servers dns1/2.your-domain.com at no extra cost. This will give more credibility to your website, particularly when it is a business one, and you could use these name servers for any other domain name that you might want to host inside the semi-dedicated account as well.