Re: My website saga, part 1 - transferring domain name

[Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> I also use Network Solutions as my registrar (Verio is my hosting service).  A
> lot of combined host/register services put up all sorts of roadblocks to make it
> harder for you to fire them, but keeping the two services separate enables me to
> keep control of my domain pointers out of the hands of whatever hosting provider
> I'm using and to just log into the domain at NS and revise the technical data to
> change from one host to another whether the current hosting service likes it or
> not.

Good host/register companies will put your name on the domain record
as the Administrative Contact so that you can change hosts whenever
you want. (We do. We've had to help way too many customers who never
got control of their own domain names and there are a lot of hoops to
jump through at that point to get everything set up correctly.)

But it can be hard to tell if companies do this. You can ask them
ahead of time if you will be listed as Admin Contact, but that doesn't
mean that they'll honor it. (If you know some other websites that they
host, you can use whois.com to see who is listed in the various
positions.) So Gene's idea of keeping them separate is a good idea.

Char James-Tanny ~ JTF Associates, Inc. ~ http://www.helpstuff.com
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