Having total control over your domains is something rather important 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 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 also a whole list of records, such as 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 e-mails for a particular domain name. These records are employed if you want to have your website with one company and the e-mails with another, for example. You may also use a domain name for a non-website service or direct the traffic to it using special records. A lot of companies ask for an additional payment to grant access to edit particular DNS records other than the name servers.