The Name Servers of a domain reveal the DNS servers that are responsible for its DNS records. The IP address of the website (A record), the mail server that manages the e-mails for a domain name (MX records), any text record in free form (TXT record), forwarding (CNAME record) and so forth are extracted from the DNS servers of the website hosting provider and for any Internet domain to be using them and to be directed to their hosting platform, it has to have their name servers, or NS records. If you want to open a website, for example, and you type in the URL, the browser connects to a DNS server, which keeps the NS records for the domain name and the request is then forwarded to the DNS servers of the webhosting provider where the A record of the site is retrieved, so you can see the content from the right location. Commonly a domain name has 2 name servers that start with NS or DNS as a prefix and the distinction between the two is just visual.

NS Records in Shared Hosting

The innovative Hepsia CP, included with with our shared hosting products, allows you to control the name servers of every single domain address registered through us with simply a couple of mouse clicks, so even if you haven't had a website hosting plan or a domain before, you simply won't encounter any troubles. The Domain Manager tool, which is a part of Hepsia, comes with a very user-friendly interface and will enable you to modify the NS records of any domain address or even a number of domain names simultaneously. In addition we offer you the chance to create child name servers dns1.your-domain.com and dns2.your-domain.com for any domain registered inside the account just as easily and all you need for that is a couple of IPs - either ours, if you will use the child NS to point the domain name to the account on our cloud platform, or the ones of the third-party company if you will use the new records to direct the domain to their system. In contrast to other companies, we don't charge additional for providing this additional DNS management service.