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Register the domain yourself. If you register it yourself, pay for it yourself, and have yourself listed as the contacts, you can do whatever you want to with it. No one else should have any rights or claims to it.
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Ecobb
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Hope This Helps!
Ecobb
"My work is a game, a very serious game." - M.C. Escher
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PhoneGuy2000
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I have my domains registered with godaddy. I have tried 3 others, godaddy is the cheapest price and you get great online control of your domain name.
also, for webhosting, I ran across a greeat deal on ebay that sounded too good to be true, IQUZ was offering to host 3 domains for 10.00 per year. I tried it and I have been more than satisfied. I have unlimited storage (right now I have 1.2 gigs on there. I do only get 5 gigsd of tragffic per month but I haven't come close to that. They do not offer that deal at their website, so you will have to find them on ebay. I think they have a link on their website to their ebay stuff. I have free webmai, domain parking (5) free subdomains, mysql databases (5) php, shopping cart and a whole lot more.
good luck.
also, for webhosting, I ran across a greeat deal on ebay that sounded too good to be true, IQUZ was offering to host 3 domains for 10.00 per year. I tried it and I have been more than satisfied. I have unlimited storage (right now I have 1.2 gigs on there. I do only get 5 gigsd of tragffic per month but I haven't come close to that. They do not offer that deal at their website, so you will have to find them on ebay. I think they have a link on their website to their ebay stuff. I have free webmai, domain parking (5) free subdomains, mysql databases (5) php, shopping cart and a whole lot more.
good luck.
Never ever use a host that offers unlimited bandwidth or storage, it is a scam, there is no possible way to offer this on a real basis. They offer this because they do not expect people to use it, and if they do they will disconnect you.
Try uploading 20GB of data and leaving it there for some time, I guarantee that your account is cancelled for something like monopolising server resources.
Personally I have never ever heard of an unlimited space drive, have you?![[wink]](/data/assets/smilies/wink.gif "[wink] [wink]")
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Try uploading 20GB of data and leaving it there for some time, I guarantee that your account is cancelled for something like monopolising server resources.
Personally I have never ever heard of an unlimited space drive, have you?
Wullie
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell
Or post a URL to your site on slashdot... that'll bring the "free unlimited bandwidth" hosts to their knees (usually).
A domain name is basically an entry in a table that translates "easy to remember names" into "hard to remember numbers". The "registration of a domain name" is nothing more than the creation of this entry (and the related ownership details etc in an admin database).
Many companies offer this registration service - and as posted, you should not be paying much more than $10 or so per year for this process (although different domains will cost you different amounts: .tv costs more than .com).
Once you have a domain registered, you can often update the table entry using a web admin control panel. This gives you the ability to utilise almost any web hosting company to physically store your web site. Your web hosting is entirely seperate from the domain hosting.
Some companies offer both services... and some of them have various bundled packages where they grant free domain registration with certain restrictive conditions. I would consider these bundled packages only after reading all the Terms and Conditions very very closely. If it sounds too good to be true... it will be.
I have used to register domains in the UK, and then used their web control panel to change which website the domain "pointed to". Of course, I also used to both register a domain as well as host the corresponding web site. Usually you get a more "integrated" suite of solutions if you go for a solution like the latter.
Sorry for the lengthy rant... hope it's of value to you.
Jeff
A domain name is basically an entry in a table that translates "easy to remember names" into "hard to remember numbers". The "registration of a domain name" is nothing more than the creation of this entry (and the related ownership details etc in an admin database).
Many companies offer this registration service - and as posted, you should not be paying much more than $10 or so per year for this process (although different domains will cost you different amounts: .tv costs more than .com).
Once you have a domain registered, you can often update the table entry using a web admin control panel. This gives you the ability to utilise almost any web hosting company to physically store your web site. Your web hosting is entirely seperate from the domain hosting.
Some companies offer both services... and some of them have various bundled packages where they grant free domain registration with certain restrictive conditions. I would consider these bundled packages only after reading all the Terms and Conditions very very closely. If it sounds too good to be true... it will be.
I have used to register domains in the UK, and then used their web control panel to change which website the domain "pointed to". Of course, I also used to both register a domain as well as host the corresponding web site. Usually you get a more "integrated" suite of solutions if you go for a solution like the latter.
Sorry for the lengthy rant... hope it's of value to you.
Jeff
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