 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
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Re: W/domain name & hosting - same email addr for life said by nekote:
W/domain name & hosting - same email addr for life
Get your own domain name, say at:
»www.godaddy.com for less than $10/year.
In addition, get an Internet host, small / personal sites for another $10 - $20/year.
Read the fine print with these lowball domain name people. generally you're locked into using THEIR DNS servers, they retain ownership of the domain. should it become popular they can sell it right out from under you. |
| A very good point dvd536!
Which is one reason I suggested:
www.godaddy.com
They are one of the "good guys" - they don't sneakily take possesion of the domain name - they have been / are still(?) the straight deal.
But dvd536's point makes for an excellent warning.
That is *the* very nasty catch in the fine print for some of the low ball, so called, registrars - really scammers / rip-off deals looking to suck in the ignorant.
Web hosting on the other hand, is a different issue. *IF* you should get ripped off by a poor performing host, the worse that happens is you may lose the fee paid in advance ($10 - $20 for a year) and maybe any emails they might hold hostage, say, for non-payment / renewal?
So, if you do get burned, you simply buy a new web hosting deal somewhere else (hopefully a better place!). The secret here is that you return to the *REGISTRAR* and use their web interface to point yourdomain.com to the new hosting - the old host no longer gets any hits / emails!
Whereas, as dvd536 was suggesting, if you are screwed by the *REGISTRAR*, then *THEY* own yourdomain.com and can easily extend and delay your ability to keep / move yourdomain.com to another *REGISTRAR*. They'd own it / keep it. Most especially if it is a popular / often hit domain name - you can be held hostage / extorted over the ownership of yourdomain.com.
So, pay the $10/year or so with an honest, straight forward *REGISTRAR* and make sure to skip the $5/year "bad guys".
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