Re: Registering a domain name
If yahoo lets you change your domain’s DNS names to point to a server sitting in your basement (or any other host for that matter) then yes, I am with you.
Two very common mistakes that people make are following:
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choose a hosting provider and let them register the domain that they will host. In most cases, they will put their own credentials in the registry info. Try a whois on a domain that was registered by a host and you will know what I mean. Most inexpensive and small host companies are not domain registrars anyway. They have to use a registry service from a third party.
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transfer a domain’s registry when you don’t really need to. This is a big misconception. All you need to do is to point your DNS names to a new host. And if your host registered your domain, then you will have to ask your host to change it. Whether your host is a registrar or not, you will have a hard time having them to change the DNS names on your domain registry (unless of course they give you full control like yahoo as you mentioned)
I didn’t have my website hacked. I had a friend in pakistan who is an IT manager in a small firm. He had his company’s website hosted by readyhosting.com (u.s. based) and they wanted to change their web hosting provider. He asked me for help. The readyhosting used network solutions to register the domain I believe. I couldn’t just logon to network solutions and change the DNS names because the domain was theoretically owned and managed by readyhosting. It took me more than 3 weeks to get them to change the DNS name at network solutions and then update the registry to reflect my friend’s name and logon info so that readyhosting is out of the picture.