Having 100 % control over your domains is something rather important and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for any of them is among the things you need to look for when you search for a registration or a hosting provider. You might have heard about the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain name is hosted, but below them you will find a whole set 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 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 emails with another, as an illustration. You may also use a domain for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it through special records. A lot of companies ask for an extra payment to grant access to edit particular DNS records besides the name servers.
