Having total control of your domain names is something rather necessary and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for every single one of them is among the things you need to look for when you search for a registration or a shared website hosting provider. You might have heard of the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain is hosted, but below them there is a whole list of records, like the A record, which is the IP address of the server hosting the site, and the MX records, which show the server that manages the emails for a specific domain. These records are used if you wish to have your site with one service 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 through special records. A lot of companies ask for an additional fee to provide access to edit specific DNS records besides the name servers.