If you buy a domain and transfer it, do you pay twice?
If i was to buy a cheap domain name from a company and then transfer it over to my freewebs account, do I have to pay again to freewebs?
You usually pay 2 parts, hidden as one fee. You pay to have the name registered with an National Internet registration organization, so it is yours, and you pay to have a hosting company to "register" it on the internet via their DNS servers, so people can find it.
The second part is transferable, but sometimes they (hosting company) charge a transfer fee because they have to do the "paperwork", to notify the registrar of the move, and update their DNS.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
You usually pay 2 parts, hidden as one fee. You pay to have the name registered with an National Internet registration organization, so it is yours, and you pay to have a hosting company to "register" it on the internet via their DNS servers, so people can find it.
The second part is transferable, but sometimes they (hosting company) charge a transfer fee because they have to do the "paperwork", to notify the registrar of the move, and update their DNS.
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August 10th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
you have to check this with freewebs. Normally it is free. I used 1&1 to host my website and then I bought a cheap domain name and transferred it for free.
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