The Name Servers of a domain name show the DNS servers that are responsible for its DNS records. The IP address of the web site (A record), the mail server that deals with the emails for a domain name (MX records), any text record in free form (TXT record), pointing (CNAME record) and so forth are extracted from the DNS servers of the web hosting company and for any domain name to be using them and to be forwarded to their hosting platform, it should have their name servers, or NS records. If you wish to open a website, for example, and you enter the URL, the browser connects to a DNS server, which keeps the NS records for the domain and the request is then redirected to the DNS servers of the hosting provider where the A record of the site is obtained, enabling you to view the content from the right location. Ordinarily a domain address has two name servers that start with NS or DNS as a prefix and the distinction between the two is only visual.