A valuable lesson I’ve learnt from a mishap late last year with one of my domains. It is a common “bonus offer” for many web hosting companies to provide a “free” domain name either for the first year or for the lifetime of your account with the hosting company. But what would happen if things go sour?
Perhaps things change and you want to host the site yourself or you have decided to rent a dedicated server instead of using the shared hosting solution that you have signed up with? You will be stuck with dealing with the headaches that come with domain transfers and authorisations by way of diving through hoops and even to the point where you have to pay a fee just so that you can make a change to your domain.
This wouldn’t happen if you buy and manage your own domain, dealing directly with the domain registrars themselves instead of hosting providers – I’m in the process of consolidating my domains under the one provider. It is the better choice for me as I can change name servers on my own, cancel or transfer the domain if I need, or want to and it gives me a centralised place to manage the domains I have for my sites.
I advise you to do the same as the drama that I had to go to led to me changing my sites domain name from .com to .net thanks to 2mhosts policy of not talking to ex customers.
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Bill Karwin
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Jani Hartikainen
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David Penner
Diah
Thankfully I’ve never had this experience before. I’ve always stuck to godaddy for domain name registrations.
Some policy they had! As cruel as most software so-called EULA of not responsible to any damage caused by their software after we paid thousands for it.