I am looking at web hosting plan. I find cheaper hosting plan provider sell domain at higher price. Any experts can explain how does this work? Can I purchase domain from another provider without transferring to the the provider I am hosting at if I want to use this domain for my website? If the domain has to be transferred, is there any impact on domain name renewal? For example, if I purchase com.au domain name for 5 years, after this domain being transferred. Do I still own this domain for next 5 years? or I need to paid for renewal to the new provider?
Has Domain Name (com.au) to Be Transferred to The Provider Where I Am Hosting at?
ozmaxz on 30/04/2023 - 23:04
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Thanks for quick reply.
If domain resister and hosting provider can be separate, technically I can transfer my domain to a cheaper register (and renew from there),then point to my current web hosting server?
Yes you can. As long as you set it up correctly, can be any registrar and any webhosting company you want.
Cloudflare offer the cheapest at-cost domains generally (but not .com.au I believe) and includes their fantastic DDOS and cybersecurity protection.
https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
IONOS offer 1 USD/month for first 12 months cheap hosting.
https://www.ionos.com/hosting/web-hosting#plans
Both work with each other just fine.
If I run multiple websites, can I use multiple the domain register for different types of domains (.com and com.au)? as long as I configure them correctly (all of them point to web hosting server).
@ozmaxz: Your questions are not very clear.
Are you asking if you can have both ozmaxz.com and ozmaxz.com.au both pointing to same webhosting server? Yes you can.
@ozmaxz: Well you'd point your main one to your web host and the rest you'd use CNAME name record with the main URL in it.
@ozmaxz: Hey. Yeah, you can have as many domains with a different registrar if you want, then configure each individually to point to another web host (Either the same one, if supported for that many domains, or each to their own different hosting destination).
For your transfer question. You can transfer the domain at (almost) any time to another provider. With .com.au or any .au TLD, you can do this for free and it will maintain the existing duration (If you transfer with 4 years left, you don't lose time nor do you pay anything).
For other extensions it varies a little, but usually you pay 1 year renewal and maintain the existing time too (So 4 years + 1 year payment, for 5 years remaining on transfer).
Can and should be seperate imo. Though I have to wonder why you are stressing over a few bucks a year in registrar fees for a single domain.
It doesn't need to be different most domain name registrars are pretty responsive to issues now a days and they have a lot more policies to comply with then they did 10 years ago.
Due to the Privacy concerns GDPR etc domain registrars have got a lot strictor.
Plus smaller providers are becoming less of a thing now a days due to the finances needed to run a hosting provider.
For the few smaller providers left we have two or three main domain wholesale registrars to choose from its not like 20 years ago when every medium sized hosting company had a reseller program.
Correct you can transfer your domain name to whatever registrar you want. Then just update the nameservers for the domain to point to the new hosting provider if the hosting provider has changed.
Yes your domain registrar and hosting provider can be completely separate.
You simply go into the control panel/settings for the domain and point it to the webhosting details.