The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, show which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular host company for your domain address is the most effective way to point it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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), etc, if you wish to modify any one of these records, you are going to be able to do it using 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 try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to retrieve the DNS records of the Internet domain you want to reach. That way the website you will see is going to be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain address has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no practical difference between the two prefixes, so which one a web hosting provider will use depends only on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
In the event you register a domain name inside a shared hosting account from our company, you are going to be able to take care of its name servers easily. This can be done via the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia website hosting CP and with only a few mouse clicks you'll be able to update the NS records of a single one or even multiple domain addresses at the same time, which can save you considerable time and efforts if you have a large number of domains that you'd like to point to an alternative provider. You can enter numerous name servers depending on how many the other company offers you. Additionally we allow you to create private name servers for every single domain registered via our company and in contrast to many other providers we don't charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain address to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs in particular, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.