NS Records

Learn about what NS records are and why they're vital for virtually any domain name.

The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, reveal which servers handle the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a given host company for your domain address is the most convenient 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), and so forth, so if you would like to change any one of these records, you will be able to do it by using their system. To put it differently, the NS records of a domain address 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 Internet domain you are trying to reach. This way the site that you're going to see is going to be retrieved from the correct 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 sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what kind a website hosting provider is going to use depends exclusively on their preference.

NS Records in Cloud Hosting

Managing the NS records for any domain registered within a cloud hosting account on our cutting-edge cloud platform is going to take you only moments. Through the feature-rich Domain Manager tool within the Hepsia Control Panel, you are going to be able to change the name servers not only of a single domain address, but even of many domains at once when you intend to direct them all to the same webhosting provider. The exact same steps will also enable you to forward newly transferred domain names to our platform since the transfer procedure won't change the name servers automatically and the domains will still forward to the old host. If you wish to create private name servers for a domain registered on our end, you are going to be able to do that with just a few mouse clicks and with no additional charge, so if you have a company web site, for example, it's going to have more credibility if it uses name servers of its own. The new private name servers can be used for directing any other domain name to the same account too, besides the one they're created for.