Having full control of your domains is something rather important and to be able to access and edit the DNS records for each of them is one of 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 is hosted, but below them there is also a whole list of records, for example the A record, which is the IP address of the server hosting the website, and the MX records, which show the server that handles the e-mails for a certain domain. These records are employed if you wish to have your site with one company and the emails with another, for example. 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 additional fee to provide access to edit particular DNS records apart from the name servers.