Having complete control over your domain names is something very crucial and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for each of them is one of the things you have to look for when you search for a registration or a shared web hosting provider. You might have heard about the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain address is hosted, but below them you will find a whole list of records, for example the A record, which is the IP address of the server hosting the website, and the MX records, which show the server that manages the e-mails for a certain domain name. These records are used if you wish to have your website with one service provider and the emails with another, for instance. You may also use a domain name for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it through special records. A lot of companies ask for an extra payment to grant access to edit certain DNS records besides the name servers.