The Name Servers of a domain name show the DNS servers that manage its DNS records. The IP of the web site (A record), the mail server that takes care of the emails for a domain (MX records), any text record in free form (TXT record), forwarding (CNAME record) and so on are taken from the DNS servers of the website hosting provider and for any domain name to be using them and to be pointed to their hosting platform, it has to have their name servers, or NS records. If you would like to open a website, for instance, and you enter the URL, the web browser connects to a DNS server, which keeps the NS records for the domain name and the request is then pointed to the DNS servers of the hosting provider where the A record of the site is obtained, allowing you to view the content from the right location. Ordinarily a domain address has 2 name servers that start with NS or DNS as a prefix and the difference between the two is simply visual.
NS Records in Cloud Hosting
In the event you register a domain name inside a cloud hosting account from our company, you will be able to control its name servers easily. This is done using the Registered Domains section of the in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and with only a few clicks you are going to be able to update the NS records of a single one or even numerous domain addresses simultaneously, which will save you time and efforts when you have a large number of domain addresses you want to redirect to an alternative service provider. You can enter a number of name servers depending on how many the other company provides you with. We allow you to create private name servers for each and every domain address registered through our company and unlike many other companies we do not charge anything more for this service. The newly created NS records can be used to point any other domain to the hosting platform of the provider whose IPs you have used during the process, so if you use our IPs for instance, all domain addresses included in the account on our end can use these name servers.
NS Records in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Our semi-dedicated server accounts are administered via Hepsia - an all-in-one tool with incredibly user-friendly interface, that will allow you to manage your domain names easily even if you haven't used a hosting account or a domain in the past. Changing the NS records for each and every domain registered with our company, viewing the existing ones and whether they are correct or not as to forward that domain name to our cloud hosting platform is also very simple and requires as little as several mouse clicks. You'll also be able to register child name servers under each and every one of your domains as an element of the free DNS management services that we offer with each and every plan and have ns1.your-domain.com and ns2.your-domain.com. The latter can be used for any domain that you accommodate within the semi-dedicated account, so if you offer services to third-parties and host their web sites, employing this feature will give you much more credibility as a business.