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21Feb

As a hosting reseller with a few vendors, I used to request domain registration through those Web hosting service accounts. One of them outsources the registration to Melbourne IT (melbourneit.com.au/). This is perfectly reasonable because the hosting service is not set up to be a domain registrar. What is not reasonable is their choice of

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14Nov

I’ve had a couple of questions lately about domain registration versus hosting accounts, so I thought I’d answer them here. It doesn’t matter where you register a domain, you can host the actual Web site for that domain anywhere. It seems a lot of folks have registered with Network Solutions, but have yet to get

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16Oct

In addition to the other reasons to shun NetworkSolutions.com, here’s a fresh one. If you register a domain name with your hosting company and don’t use it, don’t provide an index page of your own, or don’t point it to another domain, the hosting service posts a default Web page. These usually have the host

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