Having 100 % control over your domain names is something rather crucial and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for any of them is one of the things you need to look for when you search for a registration or a cloud website hosting provider. Perhaps you have heard about the so-called “name servers” that show where a domain is hosted, but below them there's 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 manages the emails for a specific domain name. These records are employed if you'd like to have your website with one service provider and the emails with another, for example. You may also use a domain name for a non-website service or forward the traffic to it by using special records. A lot of companies ask for an additional payment to provide access to edit certain DNS records other than the name servers.