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Date:	Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:03:56 PST7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Domain registration

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Now that I've moved Junk Spy to the very *end* of my filter list . . .
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Larry Tawa wrote:
>
> If I buy the first year of registration from Verisign
> for $35, at a later time can I purchase additional
> years from your $8.95/yr vender or am I committed to
> buy additional registration years from Verisign?

Yes, it's called a "transfer". *However*, Verisign wants three months
advance notice before the expiration date.

Why would you want to do this? My own list of registrars has over 30
different companies and it's not complete. There's nothing magic about
Verisign.

> A related question: who owns the "pink
> slip" for the domain that I registered?

I've never heard the term "pink slip" for a domain. If you pay for the
domain, then you own the domain (as a service some Hosting ISPs will
register it for you but it's still yours). The Hosting ISP or the
Registrar may, as a courtesy, list themselves as a contact for that
domain but you can change that at any time. If you have a web site
that's hosted by an ISP (rather than on your own machine) then the ISP
may as a courtesy list themselves as the domain's Technical Contact, but
again you can change that at any time.

The sequence is one of these two:

You -> Hosting ISP -> Registrar -> Domain Database
or
You -> Registrar -> Domain Database

In either case, you own the domain that's stored in the Domain Database
(which was in Virginia but I think they've recently replicated it to
other cities).

> I still have worldnet & dslextreme dialup access.

Hey, there are people who only have cell phones!

May I suggest something? *First*, get your web site running on the free
web space that your ISP gives you. You'll be quite surprised how much
time that takes. *Then*, once you're happy with your web pages, you
can set up your own web server if you still want to.

If your goal is a business, setting up the web server before creating
the web site is doing it backwards. If, however, your goal is to learn
how to administer a web server then of course you should first set up
the server and not worry about the web pages.

- Peter

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