Having 100 % control over your domains is something really important and being able to access and edit the DNS records for every single one of them is among the things you have to look for when you search for a registration or a cloud hosting provider. Perhaps you have heard of the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain is hosted, but below them there's 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 deals with the e-mails for a particular domain name. These records are employed if you would like have your website with one company and the e-mails with another, as an illustration. Additionally you can use a domain address for a non-website service or direct the traffic to it by using special records. A lot of companies ask for an additional payment to provide access to edit particular DNS records besides the name servers.