[notidaho]

Hi people.

I am currently re-designing my company's website and hoping to take over management of it to save them money.
The company they currently pay to maintain the site are doing a sloppy job and I think I can do better whilst enhancing my CV. I have a few questions about the transfer:

Who probably owns the rights to the domain name we use - the design company, the web hosts or my company? If it belongs to us, how would I go about transferring it? If it belongs to the host company could we bypass the design company and use the hosts or would we have to wait for certain leases to run out?

Instead of paying for hosting I would like to move the website to our in-office windows server which is always online, but may have tight security. How feasible is this and is there an forum area I can get advice on this?

Basically how messy is this gonna be, I need to convince my boss I can do it smoothly

[notidaho]

Wow no replies, was it something I said...

[haifa]

If you need to transfer the domain you can try this site http://www.xnynz.com/ and also get the domain name register, domain appraisal, online file folder,etc....

This post has been edited by haifa: 12 February 2011 - 05:17 AM

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Who probably owns the rights to the domain name we use - the design company, the web hosts or my company? If it belongs to us, how would I go about transferring it? If it belongs to the host company could we bypass the design company and use the hosts or would we have to wait for certain leases to run out

• Your company should own the domain name. To find out simply contact the registrar. If you do not know who the registrar is then do a WHOIS search - eg http://www.who.is/
• Once you have confirmed the registrar you can simply leave the domain with them and change the DNS settings to point to a new server or obtain the Transfer Key from them to submit to another registrar to transfer the domain. [Be careful - have your email addresses setup on your new server before editing the DNS so you do not lose emails]

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Instead of paying for hosting I would like to move the website to our in-office windows server which is always online, but may have tight security. How feasible is this and is there an forum area I can get advice on this?

Hosting a website on your company server is very dangerous unless you know exactly what you are doing. The server has to be accessible via the www and as such can be very exposed to hackers, viruses, Trojans etc. Your anti viral software and firewalls will be tested to the max. Why risk it when you can host the website on an independent server with an outside host for literally $3 - $5 per month. This is an incredibly small investment for peace of mind.

Please do not hesitate to contact us direct via - sales@dutyfreehosting.com if you have any further questions or need advice of any kind.

We will be pleased to help if we can.

[vimal09]

haifa, on 12 February 2011 - 05:15 AM, said:

If you need to transfer the domain you can try this site http://www.xnynz.com/ and also get the domain name register, domain appraisal, online file folder,etc....

thank you friend!!