The NS, or Name Server records of a domain, indicate which servers deal with the Domain Name System (DNS) records for it. Setting the name servers of a particular hosting provider for your domain is the most effective way to point it to their system and all its sub-records are going to be handled 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, in case you would like to edit some of these records, you're going to be able to do it by using their system. Put simply, the NS records of a domain show the DNS servers which are authoritative for it, so when you try to open a web address, the DNS servers are contacted to get the DNS records of the domain you want to access. This way the site you'll see will be retrieved from the correct location. The name servers normally have a prefix “ns” or “dns” and every single domain name has at least two NS records. There's no functional difference between the two prefixes, so what type a hosting provider is going to use depends solely on their preference.
NS Records in Shared Hosting
If you use a Linux shared hosting from our company and you register a new domain in the account or transfer an existing one from another company, you're going to be able to control its NS records with ease through the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared accounts. You can change the current name servers or enter additional ones for a single domain name or even for a group of domain names at the same time with several mouse clicks. This is done via the feature-rich Domain Manager tool which is a part of Hepsia and the user-friendly interface is going to make it simple to control your domain name even if it is the first one you have ever registered. It takes merely a click to see what name servers a domain uses at the moment or if they are the correct ones to point a domain address to the hosting space on our end and with a few mouse clicks more you will even be able to register private name servers for any one of the domain names that you own. For the latter option you can use the IP addresses of any provider that you want the new NS records to forward to.