Minimor
Well-Known Member
If you get a webhosting company to set up your site, and they register the domain name for you, make sure that they show you as the owner of that domain name.
A local hole in the wall firm set up our site a year ago. I paid them a lump sum, which was very reasonable compared to other hosting companies I checked out, and gave them a CD with my web files on it, & they set it all up. All fine & dandy, except now when my renewal date is coming up, I called to ask what the renewal fee will be. (I'd found out from a friend that they weren't too good about invoicing for renewals ahead of time--they never invoiced her, & her site shut down for non payment. She'd assumed she'd get a bill ahead of the renewal date, but no.) Their number is disconnected & as far as I can tell they have simply shut down without notice to their customers.
I called around for prices on other servers, and chose one to go with. The fellow there checked out my existing site & found out that the domain is showing as owned by the guy at the company that set up my hosting last year. I can renew the domain name with no problem, but to get it moved to a different server....I need that fellow's authorization. Or, I need him to transfer ownership of the domain to me. My new host is working on it & thinks he can get it all fixed up without my having to change domain names--he said the guy probably didn't fully understand what he was doing & the error in ownership was just an error, not a deliberate attempt to keep ownership away from me. Anyway, he thinks he can get this sorted out, but it might take some time, and come Wednesday of this week our site is likely going to crash for awhile.
I had no idea--I just assumed that the site was mine, therefore the domain name is also mine...I never thought about asking specifically if it would be under my ownership. I guess there was a reason this place was so much cheaper than everyone else??
: No more hole in the wall internet hosts for me; I'm going with a bigger provider this time, & paying more for it too.
A local hole in the wall firm set up our site a year ago. I paid them a lump sum, which was very reasonable compared to other hosting companies I checked out, and gave them a CD with my web files on it, & they set it all up. All fine & dandy, except now when my renewal date is coming up, I called to ask what the renewal fee will be. (I'd found out from a friend that they weren't too good about invoicing for renewals ahead of time--they never invoiced her, & her site shut down for non payment. She'd assumed she'd get a bill ahead of the renewal date, but no.) Their number is disconnected & as far as I can tell they have simply shut down without notice to their customers.
I called around for prices on other servers, and chose one to go with. The fellow there checked out my existing site & found out that the domain is showing as owned by the guy at the company that set up my hosting last year. I can renew the domain name with no problem, but to get it moved to a different server....I need that fellow's authorization. Or, I need him to transfer ownership of the domain to me. My new host is working on it & thinks he can get it all fixed up without my having to change domain names--he said the guy probably didn't fully understand what he was doing & the error in ownership was just an error, not a deliberate attempt to keep ownership away from me. Anyway, he thinks he can get this sorted out, but it might take some time, and come Wednesday of this week our site is likely going to crash for awhile.
I had no idea--I just assumed that the site was mine, therefore the domain name is also mine...I never thought about asking specifically if it would be under my ownership. I guess there was a reason this place was so much cheaper than everyone else??
