Having complete control over your domain names is something rather necessary and being able to access and edit the DNS records for every one of them is among the things you have to look for when you search for a registration or a cloud hosting provider. You might 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, like the A record, which is the IP address of the server hosting the site, and the MX records, which show the server that handles the emails for a certain domain address. These records are employed if you wish to have your web site with one service provider and the emails with another, for instance. You could also use a domain address for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it by using special records. A lot of companies ask for an extra payment to provide access to edit certain DNS records apart from the name servers.