The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers manage the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a specific host company for your domain address is the easiest way to forward it to their system and all its sub-records will 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), etc, so, in case you want to edit any of these records, you're going to be able to do it using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain point out the DNS servers that 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. This way the web site you'll see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There isn't any sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a web hosting provider will use depends completely on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
When you use a shared hosting service from our company and you register a new domain name within the account or transfer an existing one from a different company, you'll be able to control its NS records easily using the Hepsia website hosting CP, offered with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a number of domain addresses at a time with several mouse clicks. This is done through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool that is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface will make it simple to handle your domain name even if it's the first one you have ever registered. It takes just a click to see what name servers a domain name uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain name to the hosting space on our end and with a few clicks more you'll even be able to register private name servers for each of the domains that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of every company that you'd like the new NS records to direct to.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The name servers for every single domain which is registered through our company can be changed with no more than a few mouse clicks via the sophisticated, although easy-to-use Hepsia CP that comes with all semi-dedicated server plans. It is just as easy to view the current NS records for a given domain name and to check if they are the ones that are needed for the domain name 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 handle any domain address easily even if you have not dealt with such matters before. If you'd like, you can even register private name servers ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com and use them not only for the domain name under which they are set up, but also for any other domain that you might want to host within the exact same account. This feature is very useful if you have customers of your own and you want their sites to use your own name servers rather than our default ones. The service is 100 % free.