Maintaining ownership of your domain is business critical. Losing access and ownership of your domain will affect your business.
Consider the time and effort which has been spent on publicising your website domain name, creating its presence on the Internet.
Loss of your domain will affect the associated emails, documentation: company flyers, leaflets, business cards. All have the wrong domain.
The solution is to maintain the ownership of your domain, transferring the DNS nameserver reference to your website design/hosting company.
Finally, if you wish to move on, working with another host or design agency the name server reference can once again be moved.
How it works
You retain control of the domain.
When the renewal fee is due you make the payment, ensuring that the domain doesn’t expire. You aren’t trusting to someone else to make the renewal.
The nameservers are assigned to the hosting company, allowing the hosting to occur, with the technical configuration and maintenance to be actioned on your behalf.
When you choose to move on to a new design/hosting company, or wish to change the location for the hosting of the servers the nameserver configuration is altered.
The nameserver configuration is part of the DNS settings in the control panel of the registration company.
What is DNS?
DNS catalogues the domain names and their IP address on the Internet. Each device (computer or server) on the Internet has an IP address.
A DNS lookup to find the location of a website will involve the local computer cache, if its recently been visited, the ISP providing the Internet connection and other DNS servers, including the nameservers configured for the domain.
What is a Name Server?
The name server controls the DNS for a domain.
For a domain the nameserver enables the configuration of the whereabouts of aspects such as the website and email servers.
A name server is a server running DNS software. The server is managed by the hosting company, its designated for the domain names associated with the hosting accounts lodged with them.
