| reply to dvd536
Re: W/domain name & hosting - same email addr for life 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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