Having total control over your domains is something rather crucial and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for each of them is among the things you need to look for when you search for a registration or a web hosting provider. Maybe you have heard about the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain is hosted, but below them there is a whole group of records, for example the A record, which is the IP address of the server hosting the site, and the MX records, which show the server that deals with the emails for a certain domain name. These records are employed if you wish to have your site with one provider and the emails with another, as an illustration. Additionally you can use a domain name for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it using special records. Many companies ask for an additional payment to give access to edit particular DNS records apart from the name servers.