Having total control of your domains is something very necessary and being able to access and edit the DNS records for every single one of them is among the things you should look for when you search for a registration or a website hosting provider. You may have heard of the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain is hosted, but below them there is also a whole set of records, like 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 particular domain name. These records are used if you wish to have your web site with one provider and the emails with another, for instance. Additionally you can use a domain name for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it using special records. Some companies ask for an extra fee to provide access to edit particular DNS records apart from the name servers.