The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate 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 most convenient 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), etc, if you need to modify any of these records, you'll be able to do it via their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain address point out the DNS servers which 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 domain name you want to reach. This way the site that you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers typically have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and each domain name has at least 2 NS records. There is absolutely no functional difference between the two prefixes, so which one a website hosting provider is going to use depends only on their preference.
NS Records in Website Hosting
The avant-garde Hepsia CP, included with with our website hosting packages, will allow you to control the name servers of every single domain address registered through us with only a few clicks, so even though you may have not had a hosting plan or a domain address before, you will not encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it will enable you to change the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain addresses all at once. In addition we offer you the opportunity to set up child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for every domain address registered within the account just as easily and all you need for that is a pair of IP addresses - either ours, if you're going to use the child NS to point the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party provider if you'll use the new records to forward the domain name to their system. Unlike other providers, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.