Having total control over your domains is something quite crucial and being 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 hosting provider. Perhaps you have heard about the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain name 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 website, and the MX records, which show the server that handles the e-mails for a certain domain. These records are used if you would like have your website with one company and the e-mails with another, for example. You could also use a domain address for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it by using special records. Many companies ask for an additional payment to grant access to edit certain DNS records other than the name servers.