The NS, or Name Server records of a domain name, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company 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), and so forth, so if you want to change some of these records, you'll be able to do it using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain show the DNS servers that 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 you are trying to reach. This way the web site that you're going to see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain has at least two NS records. There isn't any functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider will use depends entirely on their preference.
NS Records in Cloud Web Hosting
Controlling the NS records for any domain address registered inside a cloud web hosting account on our top-notch cloud platform will take you only moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool in the Hepsia CP, you will be able to change the name servers not just of one domain address, but even of multiple domain names simultaneously when you need to point them all to the same website hosting provider. Identical steps will also enable you to point newly transferred domain addresses to our platform as the transfer procedure won't change the name servers automatically and the domain addresses will still forward to the old host. If you'd like to set up private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you will be able to do that with a few clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company site, for instance, it will have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The newly created private name servers can be used for directing any other domain name to the same account as well, besides the one they are created for.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are handled using Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with very user-friendly interface, which will help you control your domains with ease even when you haven't used a web hosting account or a domain name before. Changing the NS records for each and every domain registered with our company, viewing the current ones and whether they are correct or not as to forward that domain to our cloud hosting platform is also fairly simple and requires as little as a couple of mouse clicks. You're also going to be able to register child name servers under any of your domain addresses as part of the free DNS control services we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for every domain name that you accommodate in the semi-dedicated account, so if you provide services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature is going to give you much more credibility as a business.