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 is the most effective way to point it to their system and all its sub-records are going to 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, if you want to change any of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. In other words, the NS records of a domain name 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 domain name you are trying to access. This way the site that you will see will be retrieved from the proper location. The name servers usually have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain has at least 2 NS records. There is no sensible difference between the two prefixes, so what type a website hosting provider will use depends exclusively on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
The outstanding Hepsia Control Panel, included with with our shared hosting packages, allows you to take care of the name servers of each and every domain name registered through us with only a couple of clicks, so even if you haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain before, you won't encounter any issues. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and it will allow you to change the NS records of any domain or even a number of domain names simultaneously. In addition we give you the ability to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for each domain name registered inside 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 address to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you'll use the new records to redirect the domain to their system. In contrast to other providers, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.