Author Topic: Domain registration and hosting (Read 5995 times)

♠Dirty Harry♠ · « **Reply #40 on:** June 9, 2007, 08:35:03 pm »

I used netfirms for all mines, 25 quid for a domain for a year and 3 months hosting on a unix/windows business server

omerta · « **Reply #41 on:** April 11, 2008, 07:45:26 pm »

So who do people recommend these days? I have a hosting and domain for my local club registered with freeyellow.com but they don't do forwarding for free. Their support is excellent though so this is a pity.

I have my own domain registered with 123-reg.co.uk and forward the URL to my blog which is handy and free. The thing is I have now been asked to do a couple of little sites for others and I have noticed 123-reg support is awful so I don't want to use them.

Can anyone advise a good company that will do the hosting and/or domain registration with free forwarding (if necessary) and that has a reasonable support infrastructure. I am not building sites that the world depends upon...yet

... but if others are going to pay for them I would like to be confident they can get support if needed. Cheers

Armin · « **Reply #42 on:** April 11, 2008, 08:47:38 pm »

I use Godaddy, but mainly it has to be said because they're cheap

cj · « **Reply #43 on:** April 11, 2008, 09:01:43 pm »

Same as Armin, and for the same reason.

I use webair for hosting. They are rather large in the adult area so there's not much censorship.

omerta · « **Reply #44 on:** April 11, 2008, 10:10:45 pm »

cheers for that folks. registered a site on there now. seems fairly straightforward and helpful FAQ section too. they accept paypal which is handy.

markay_stinkay · « **Reply #45 on:** October 15, 2009, 09:50:29 pm »

So 18 months on from the last post, who would people reccommend for hosting and a domain for my sunday league team? Only gonna be a basic site with fixtures, results, league tables etc. so I expect bandwidth to be low, but it may be increased with the viewing of match galleries. Looking for the cheapest option really but deffo ad free.

omerta · « **Reply #46 on:** October 23, 2009, 09:49:52 am »

I'd still stand by godaddy all the way

Jimmy Conway · « **Reply #47 on:** October 23, 2009, 04:08:38 pm »

If you are looking for PHP based hosting. HostGator are good. They use the CPanel too so you can do virtually everything yourself, no limits. Unlike Fasthosts.

Ben S · « **Reply #48 on:** October 24, 2009, 12:47:41 am »

You do know there is no such thing as a disk with unlimited space right?

Jimmy Conway · « **Reply #49 on:** December 11, 2009, 02:51:37 pm »

Quote from: Ben S on October 24, 2009, 12:47:41 am

You do know there is no such thing as a disk with unlimited space right?

I mean no limits on things like A/MX/CNAME record changes etc.......
I was with Fasthosts once and they basically lock it all down, if you want to do advanced DNS they suggest you use a ZoneEdit account. lol

sattapaartridge · « **Reply #50 on:** March 29, 2011, 06:18:53 pm »

anyone used that JustHostMe?

I need a drupal/wordpress kind of set up....and its like £40 for its basic set up, per year....which is do-able.

Lenin. · « **Reply #51 on:** July 6, 2011, 08:35:07 pm »

I'll probably go with Godaddy to register my website name, but whats the story with this WHOIS lark? I begrudge having to pay to keep my details private, so can I just put false details in there or do the details have to match my credit card details?

boots · « **Reply #52 on:** July 7, 2011, 02:24:24 pm »

I use Network Solutions and have had no problems with them whatsoever. When I did have an issue i managed to get help quickly and promptly over the phone and by email. I cannot comment on other peoples experience but my own and it has all been very positive.

Pistolero · « **Reply #53 on:** July 7, 2011, 06:58:01 pm »

www.poldings.co.uk

...use them for all my sites...ultra reliable and good prices.

Buck Pete · « **Reply #54 on:** December 8, 2021, 02:21:23 pm »

Guys, after some basic info please

I want to buy a domain name for a future project. Im not interested in hosting a website with the domain name just yet. I just want to get the domain.

What i don't understand is - The domain is available if i go to GoDaddy, namecheap, domain.com etc. I could buy the domain literally anywhere

Where I'm getting confused is, where do the companies mentioned above get the domain from? And how does it then get registered to me so nobody else can use it? Where is the ownership info stored?

Or is it a case that the domain I want simply doesn't exist (yet)?. And I am paying for GoDaddy (or whoever) to register it for 1 to 10 years in my name?

Buck Pete · « **Reply #55 on:** December 8, 2021, 02:43:04 pm »

Ok so I googled it. Sorry guys, I just like asking on RAWK first on these types of things. So am i reading this right?

The likes of GoDaddy, Name cheap etc are the "Domain Registrars". Like a domain name broker I suppose?

But the actual "domain name registry" is where the domain info is stored and these are run by companies such as - Verisign (.com) Nominet (.co.uk) etc.

SO... if I buy Evertonarebitterbastards.co.uk from say, GoDaddy. They would charge me £x per year and register my domain name, in this case with Nominet (and pay them much less than what they charge me obv).

CraigDS · « **Reply #56 on:** December 8, 2021, 02:51:54 pm »

Yup, you've answered your own question.

Buck Pete · « **Reply #57 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:01:31 pm »

Quote from: Lazy Craig @ Xmas on December 8, 2021, 02:51:54 pm

Yup, you've answered your own question.

Yeah cheers Craig. Glad i got it right. Intersteing as ive never gave it much thought.

Ok how about this mate.

Just looking on whois.domaintools.com for the info on a domain name i had a few years ago and was used on a website I hosted with WIX. The domain name in question is registered with GoDaddy but seems to be registered on WIX name servers.

NS4.WIXDNS.NET (has 6,852,762 domains)
NS5.WIXDNS.NET (has 6,852,762 domains)

Lets say I now want to build a new website on a hosting platform away from Wix and use the original domain name with this website. What would I have to do?

Claire. · « **Reply #58 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:02:22 pm »

Yeah, the registrar informs the registry, some more about DNS here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72snZctFFtA

CraigDS · « **Reply #59 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:07:18 pm »

Quote from: Buck Pete on December 8, 2021, 03:01:31 pm

Ok how about this mate.

Just looking on whois.domaintools.com for the info on a domain name i had a few years ago and was used on a website I hosted with WIX. The domain name in question is registered with GoDaddy but seems to be registered on WIX name servers.

NS4.WIXDNS.NET (has 6,852,762 domains)
NS5.WIXDNS.NET (has 6,852,762 domains)

Lets say I now want to build a new website on a hosting platform away from Wix and use the original domain name with this website. What would I have to do?

Your new host would have their own name servers that you'd point your domain at (in other words you'd change them).

Buck Pete · « **Reply #60 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:12:58 pm »

Quote from: Lazy Craig @ Xmas on December 8, 2021, 03:07:18 pm

Your new host would have their own name servers that you'd point your domain at (in other words you'd change them).

ah ok. So i wouldn't have to go and request Wix remove them off their name servers or anything?

CraigDS · « **Reply #61 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:18:05 pm »

Quote from: Buck Pete on December 8, 2021, 03:12:58 pm

ah ok. So i wouldn't have to go and request Wix remove them off their name servers or anything?

Nah. You may have to ask GoDaddy to unlock them if they are preventing them being changed (in my experience they're normally able to be edited as standard rather than being locked) and is then a case of just putting the right ones in from the new host.

Buck Pete · « **Reply #62 on:** December 8, 2021, 03:21:09 pm »

Cheers Craig (and Claire)

I'm much clearer now.