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aytu

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i'm alittle confused about how registering a domain name works.
1. i buy a domain at a company, is it the companys properti or mine?
2. can i transfer it to another comapnie? (will i have to pay the year price again?)
3. will i get billed every year until i say i dont want it anymore or must i remeber and if i dont i can lose it?
4. if i buy it at a host and have a hosting space with them will i lose the domain if i quite the hosting part?
 
1) yours
2) you pay for the next year
3) you chose for how long you want to register it. from 1 year upto 10. and get billed once. no yearly billing
4) depends of the hosting company. some are bitches and will keep the domain, and some may even say the domain is theirs. be carefull about this :) Best thing to do is get the domain yourself so you wont have troubles
 
1) If you are buying it through a regular, reputable domain registrar, it is your property. I bet there are some places that might actually not register it in your name (like if you bought it with hosting).
2) If you want to transfer it to another company, usually the only fees will be another year of registration (the domain expiration is extended one year from the time it is transferred).
3) It won't be auto-renewed. It is your responsibility to renew it each year. Your registrar will most likely send you an email about it, but nothing will be charged to your CC after the initial registration unless you go to pay the bill.
4) You should be able to transfer it...but to keep on the safe (and cheaper) side, you might as well register it seperately from your host.
 
Originally posted by Canuckkev
3) It won't be auto-renewed. It is your responsibility to renew it each year. Your registrar will most likely send you an email about it, but nothing will be charged to your CC after the initial registration unless you go to pay the bill.
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Godaddy has auto-renewal on by default.. which turned out to be a good thing since I didn't remember I had to renew until they emailed me the receipt :eek:
 
auto-renewal is good, since i'm afraid i'll forget to renew the domain.
Is godaddy the only one with auto-renewal?
Which domain registrar should i chose (right now i'm leaning towards godaddy for its auto-renewal system)
Who are resellers?
What extra features do i get with them and what features do i lose with them?
 
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Oh, resellers just means that they aren't the official "registrar" as acredited by Internic. It really means nothing...

Namecheap resells domains from Enom. I use namecheap, so do thousands of others. Really, being a reseller doesn't mean much.

I didn't know about the auto renew. I suppose there are probably other registrars that do this. Keep in mind you can pay in advance for up to 10 years though...but who knows how long you will be interested in the domain. Once you pay, you can't get any years refunded.
 
ok, so it doesnt matter if it's a reseller
but now i'm starting to think about going with namecheap because i read somewhere that you dont get email forwarding with godaddy (unless you pay extra)
so, now i'm leaning towards namecheap
i still have some questions.
1. is it tru that i have to apy extra for email forwarding with godaddy?
2. what are the differences in features between them (like the email forwarding thing with godaddy, if its true)
 
unless you're applying for hosting from the registar as well, email forwarding isn't a feature you'd get, it's part of your hosting package, not part of acquiring a domain name.
 
What Carebear means is that if you are setting up a hosting account with the domain, all your email can be handled through your hosting account, which will usually give you all sorts of options for email. Some registrars just advertise special features such as "email forwarding" so people will give them more money for it. But really, your host will handle all email unless you choose to have the registrar handle it. Tha'ts my guess, anyways.
 
i think i'm going to go with namecheap because many people seems to have a domain with them and are happy with them
 
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