The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, point out which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain name is the easiest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will 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), etc, if you need to change any of these records, you will be able to do it through their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain address point out the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to obtain the DNS records of the domain name you are trying to reach. In this way the site you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Shared Web Hosting

The avant-garde Hepsia Control Panel, offered with with our shared web hosting products, will enable you to deal with the name servers of each and every domain address registered through our company with simply a few mouse clicks, so even if you haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain before, you will not encounter any troubles. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, features a very user-friendly interface and it'll enable you to change the NS records of any domain name or even a number of domain addresses all at once. Additionally we provide you with the ability to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain registered in the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you'll use the child NS to point the domain to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to direct the domain name to their system. Unlike other providers, we do not charge more for providing this additional DNS management service.

NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The name servers for every single domain name that is registered through us may be changed with no more than a few clicks through the sophisticated, albeit easy-to-use Hepsia Control Panel that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as simple to see the current NS records for a particular domain address and to check if they're the ones that are needed for the domain to be forwarded to your hosting account. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, is user-friendly enough to enable you to manage any domain name effortlessly even if you haven't dealt with such matters before. If you wish, you can also register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not just for the domain under which they're set up, but also for any other domain name that you might want to host within the same account. This feature is very handy if you have customers of your own and you would like their websites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is absolutely free.