Domain Name Renewal / Registration

[Marc Clifton]

Not sure what you're looking for. I use NameCheap, set the auto-renewal, and forget about it. They sent nice renewal notices which I review, but otherwise, it's a 'self-driving" experience.

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[DaveAuld]

I just moved all my domains from 1&1 to Google Domains and it was painless transfer. All the DNS settings were trasnferred across and things like exchange hosting on O365 continued un-interrupted.

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[RickZeeland]

See overview of domain name registrars here: best-domain-name-registrars-providers[^]

[kmoorevs]

As far as renewals and DNS settings at your registrar, there's really not much to it. Unless you are changing your webhost you shouldn't have to mess with DN registration with renewals. If you are changing webhosts, just point the appropriate DNS records to the new IP address...simples. One other thing, the company you lease your domain names from would probably love to sell you on a hosting plan, but that's up to you. You can even self-host if you have broadband and a static IP.

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[Dr Walt Fair PE]

I used Network solutions for years, but when I recently moved to a new server, I used the server's registrar. The transfer was easy, once I got NS to release the lock on the registration. The only complaint with NS was the price, but I registered with them since 1991.

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[W Balboos GHB]

Originally on GoDaddy, I am moving everything off their services as they expire. For a combo of a domain + low-cost web hosting, I moved to NameCheap BUT I had a need for the free email forwards included - if that's of no concern to you then other registrar options become viable.

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[Dr Walt Fair PE]

kmoorevs wrote:

You can even self-host if you have broadband and a static IP.

I used to have a static IP and hosted my server here at home in my office, but since 2003,the ISPs I've talked to won't issue a static Ip unless it's in their serverfarm.

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[raddevus]

I moved from 1&1 to Google domains a few years ago and was delighted. Google domains work great and they don't bother you. 1&1 was such a spam generator. 1&1 was really terrible.

[kmoorevs]

I've been self-hosting a domain for over 15 years now with 2 different ISPs and no problems. My current plan is called 'business class' and has been pretty reliable. The server is actually sitting here in my home office and functions as: 0: webserver for our secondary domain and over a dozen customer applications 1: database server for all web applications 2: sql reports server for a couple of Azure web apps/databases (not very efficient and going away soon) 3: fileserver holding all development files...backups are to external drives or a local drive on my main development system. A secondary backup system I have is my laptop which has the development folders synchronized/available offline. I fire it up at least once a week as a safety net. 4: secondary ftp server for exchange of data/files from customers and consultants 5: mail server It sure is convenient and cost effective but there is the risk of h/w failure, ISP outages, and even worse, power outages. In over 15 years, I've only had to deal with 1 data disk failure (a 6 y/o spinner, replaced by SSD) and 1 major power/ISP outage last year w/Michael. (the hurricane, not MM!) :laugh: Due to that experience, I recently got an Azure VM setup last month to start offloading some of the customer facing stuff. I finally got to use the really cheap domain name ending with .software...actually it reads pretty well in the browser, but it sure seems hard for people not to assume .com even when you explicitly leave it out. I'm considering another email server but haven't checked whether an email address such as someone@somewhere.software would even be accepted everywhere...I totally expect that it might break a few validation rules! Sorry for running long! :laugh: It really irritates me to spend the $70/month on it though...maybe I'm cheap! :laugh:

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[Lost User]

kmoorevs wrote:

...1 major power/ISP outage last year w/Michael. (the hurricane, not MM!) :laugh:

But I was the Hurricane, or actually Cyclone as I'm southern hemisphere based.

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[smcnulty2000]

Here's a quora.com answer to your question, maybe one of the answers there has the answer you need. Some of them point to discussion areas. Wear gloves. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-famous-domain-hosting-discussion-forums[^] I'm not sure what is making you cagey about asking the questions you need to ask. My own experience: Got tired of having to give out new emails every time I changed jobs or some email company went out of business. And I was worried about potential clients being able to follow me every time I had to change email addresses. And friends and colleagues as well. This was before Gmail and Linkedin existed. Got a sudden inspiration for a 6 letter domain name. Bought it from GoDaddy and have used them since. My wife and I both have been using webmail since 2001 because it was easier to use while we were doing a lot of contract work and would switch jobs frequently. This was also pre-smartphone and the tendency of people to carry an email client in their pocket. My most heavy use and interaction with GoDaddy and domain use is still around email. I have one full domain dedicated to my job hunting. I send all recruiters and job boards to emails there and that allows me to dedicate a single separate Gmail account to read all the crap that comes down that pipe. I have an account I use for signing up for websites that insist on an account to move forward, which allows me to catch their future "marketing efforts" into a garbage bin. My virtual secretary, Mags. I have a set of forwards and accounts that do dedicated jobs for me. On-call alerts, game sites where they email me my turn, that sort of thing. And any other companies I do business with I hand them their company name as the user and they go to the catchall account. e.g. bestbuy@mydomain.com I never hand out an email that isn't a forwarder. It reduces successful hacking attempts if the hacker tries to log into accounts that don't exist. For domains: I never buy a domain for more than a year at a time. I never agree to have all the domains renew on the same day. I do use auto-renew. The credit card is dedicated to a set of auto-pay accounts, so if it gets compromised my other credit cards are insulated and if we see something inappropriate on the bill it will stick