Things to Know About Transferring a Domain Name to a New Hosting Provider

Just because you have service through one hosting provider doesn’t mean you can’t switch to another. In most cases, you can even keep your domain name. While it might sound like a hassle, it’s actually fairly easy. Transferring your domain name between hosting providers doesn’t affect your website, DNS or emails in any way. Still, there are some things you need to know about transferring a domain name.

Ownership of a Domain Name

To transfer a domain to a new hosting provider, you have to have permission from the domain administrator or owner of that domain to process the request. This may seem like common sense, but there are plenty of people who have tried to have a domain transferred to a new provider without being the actual owner. Ensuring that you are the owner of the domain or have permission makes the transfer no more complicated than it has to be. A domain transfer that hasn’t been accepted within five days causes the process to be canceled.

Applying for a Transfer

Once you have established yourself as the owner of the domain, you need to apply for a transfer. Most online hosting companies have an option or form that can be filled out on their websites called “transfer domain name.” While filling out this form, you will be promoted to state who you will be transferring the domain to. This means that you need to have already picked out the company you wish to transfer the name to. Most hosting companies, such as Register.com, have online forms that you can fill out when you are planning transfer a domain name to them.

Domain Must Be Active

For hosting companies to transfer a domain name, it must be active. If the domain is in the process of being deleted, locked or is labeled as inactive, a transfer cannot take place. For most active e-commerce websites, this is not a problem.

Must Be Registered for 60 Days

Before you can even think about a domain transfer, you should note that a domain has to be registered for 60 days before it can be transferred. If your domain is facing bankruptcy or is in the middle of a legal dispute, it cannot be transferred. All legal matters have to be cleared up first.

Once your domain transfer is accepted successfully, it still takes about 10 days for the transfer to take place. Sometimes the amount of time it takes can be longer or shorter, depending on the companies you are transferring between. Costs and fees for transferring a domain name also apply.

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How to Get $0.01 Hosting for the First month Hosting from HostGator

I’ve been asked many times about the differences between blogging with Blogspot and WordPress. Personally for me, I don’t see much difference in the two platforms. A lot of blogger feels that you’re only a real blogger if you use WordPress. Well although I myself have moved to WordPress (for businesses purposes) , I can tell you that I was very much a “real” blogger even back then when I was blogging with blogspot.

I was still making money from my blogs then (on blogspot) so definitely no difference in that department. Although having said that, there are potentially a lot more opportunity for you to earn more when you are using the WordPress platform as for reason advertisers prefers you to have static IP (which is what you will have if you have your own hosting) or there are advertisers programs that just need you to insert some php codings and blogspot does not allow that.

Potentially there is also a risk of losing your blog on one fine day simply because blogger decide that your blog was a spammy blog and with WordPress that won’t happen .. unless your hosting is gone.

This brings me to hosting issues. Reliable and dependable hosting is definitely deciding factor after you decide to move to WordPress for whatever reason.

I use hostgator and I’ve not had any complains with them. No sudden offline alert that my blogs are not reachable, their customer service is very helpful most times and they have been around for years.

If you decide to move to WordPress and wanna give hostgator a try, here’s how you can try them out for a month at only $0.01. If for some reason you are not satisfied they offer a 45days money back guarantee.

Here’s how:

1. All you need to is go to Hostgator site. As shown below, if you already have a domain name, enter the “I currently have a domain box” (and if you don’t I suggest getting one from godaddy first. I suggest getting your domain separate from your hosting so that it’s easier if you decide to change hosting later).
2. DO NOT CLICK on the “Continue to Step 2” until you replace the “Enter a Coupon Code” to ladyjavadeal
   
3. Now click on the “Continue to Step 2”
4. There will be three package types to choose from. I would recommend the “Hatchling” if you only have one domain name or the “Baby” if you are hosting more than 2 domains.
5. After selecting the package, you will see that under the “Billing cycle” box will reflect as “0/mo” 
6.  You will now proceed to finish entering your registration info
7. After making sure all is order, click on the “Create Account” buton

 

Within a few minutes you will get an email from hostgator with all your login info. They will also request you to send in scanned photo id of yourself for verifying purpose. Don’t worry if you dont have a scanned copy, just use your camera phone and take a photo of it and send it to them.  That would be sufficient too.

If you do continue with them and opt for the monthly payment, please make sure you send your payment on time or risk your site being suspended.

I hope that is useful and do let me know if you need any help.

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