How much you paying for your domain name?

Out of interest ,and a blatent thread hi-jack, sorry, if you have your domain with one company but hosting with another, is there a way to point the domain A record to the hosting address? This would have course work if it was a dedicated webserver with its own IP but how about a shared webserver with many sites on the same IP?
 
I pay £2.75/yr + VAT for .uk domains and slightly less for com/net/org/etc.

Zap said:
Out of interest ,and a blatent thread hi-jack, sorry, if you have your domain with one company but hosting with another, is there a way to point the domain A record to the hosting address? This would have course work if it was a dedicated webserver with its own IP but how about a shared webserver with many sites on the same IP?
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Yes.

You can either set the nameservers to your hosting company's nameservers or you can run the DNS yourself and point the A and MX records to the IPs which your hosting company will give you. Edit: Infact, point every record to them unless you have any special requirements.

Shared hosting is fine - webservers handle that via VirtualHost setups which allow many (non-SSL) domains to run from the same IP :)
 
Yep. Decided to renew it based soley on the fact that I can't find a host with the same amount of domains for anywhere near the same price - since I basically have ~10 low traffic sites, I only need the same bandwidth/space levels as a regular basic account but with the ability to add ~10 domains; for that amount of domains most other hosts want me to pay for a reseller account, at which point I'd be getting the same space/bandwidth as I currently do but would be paying much more.

I'm not a fan of some of Dreamhost's decisions but they offer some good features that other hosts lack (particularly at this price point) so I stick with them :)
 
robmiller said:
Yep. Decided to renew it based soley on the fact that I can't find a host with the same amount of domains for anywhere near the same price - since I basically have ~10 low traffic sites, I only need the same bandwidth/space levels as a regular basic account but with the ability to add ~10 domains; for that amount of domains most other hosts want me to pay for a reseller account, at which point I'd be getting the same space/bandwidth as I currently do but would be paying much more.

I'm not a fan of some of Dreamhost's decisions but they offer some good features that other hosts lack (particularly at this price point) so I stick with them :)
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10 domains for one site or are you hosting different sites?
 
Cruiser said:
my domain is .info
seems i'm paying over the odds then.

how do i go about keeping www.blueguitar.info and changing my domain company when this one runs out next month? or will i have to change the .info to something else
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.info domains are actually a lot cheaper than others (I tend to think slightly less of .info sites because of this, but that's a personal opinion). Namecheap do them for $3.48/year and GoDaddy do them at $5.95 but to name a couple. If I'm not mistaken, there was a large offer going on a few years back where people could register .info domains for free (or next to nothing), and that devalued the extension in my opinion :)
 
Al Vallario said:
.info domains are actually a lot cheaper than others (I tend to think slightly less of .info sites because of this, but that's a personal opinion). Namecheap do them for $3.48/year and GoDaddy do them at $5.95 but to name a couple. If I'm not mistaken, there was a large offer going on a few years back where people could register .info domains for free (or next to nothing), and that devalued the extension in my opinion :)
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hey don't dis my domain mofo, jk :p

ok, so should i just not renew with my existing provider and use another one. will i need to be there at like midnight when it runs out, to renew with the new provider, so someone else doesn't get it?


edit: just looked at register1.net. i can transfer it there.

the options are VDS and VDS PRO which cost shed loads, then Domain Parking for free <- is this what i want for a normal website? what is the catch
 
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Cruiser said:
ok, so should i just not renew with my existing provider and use another one. will i need to be there at like midnight when it runs out, to renew with the new provider, so someone else doesn't get it?


edit: just looked at register1.net. i can transfer it there.

the options are VDS and VDS PRO which cost shed loads, then Domain Parking for free <- is this what i want for a normal website? what is the catch
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Make sure you pay for a domain renewal at least 24 hours before the expiration date or you run the risk of losing the domain. I've renewed a domain at 11:58pm before and I really don't recommend it :D

If you let the domain expire it'll be snapped up by companies who specifically buy up expired domains in order to harness any traffic (ie, previous visitors to the domain's website).

As for the Register1 options I have no idea, but you don't want Domain Parking anywhere as that wouldn't be a transfer/extension and the domain would remain registered with your current registrar and then expire.

.uk domains will not (normally) include an extension in the registration period when they're transferred, but com/net/org/name/biz/info/us and possibly others (not my area) will. Though that probably also depends on the policies of the company you choose.

Best bet might be to renew the domain name with its current registrar then sort the hosting separately, unless the domain doesn't expire for a while, because a non-.uk domain transfer can take upto 14 days because it's more complicated than a .uk transfer, which is fairly instant. So the domain could expire before it's transferred....better to be safe than sorry :)
 
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