What is a domain name?

Question

i paid for my website last year and the man that did it registered my domain name. He contacted me and told me it would cost £115 to register it again this year.

What is a domain name

Should it cost that much

Can i re register it myself

Thanks x

Answer 1

the domain name is the address for your site...

like the domain name for yahoo is   yahoo.com

it should cost about $8 to $12 per year to register a domain.

Since you didnt register the domain then you probably wont be able to renew it. Since Im going to guess you dont have any access to the account it was bought in.

Answer 2

The domain name is the name you registered. yoursite.co.uk (you get what I mean).

£115? You are being ripped off as registration is usually for 2, 5 or 10 years.

Are you sure he's not charging you that for hosting?

I suggest you look at someone like http://www.1and1.co.uk

Answer 3

OK so you now know what a domain name is. The registration is about £2 for 5 years renewable at the same cost. Is this guy doing your hosting as well? If so it's about right. I am glad peeps are recommending 1&1 . That would be our choice. Have a look at our website about design and promotion (no adverts or links) just commonsense gained from our experiences. Feel\ free to contact us http://www.ds32.com with any questions. If you subscribe to 1&1 through us we make a few pennies so that would be good and you can learn how to do things yourself, the right way!

Answer 4

domain name is  the name of the website with extension .com .net .org .co.uk

example:

yoursite.com << this is domain name.

its cost depends on the time you register it for.

.com .net .org cost around $9 for 1 year.

and yes you can register it yourself.

Answer 5

oops,you are going to pay through the nose!!!pls go contact http://www.godaddy.com ,that's the most famous domain provider all over the world,besides,it costs you no more than US$9 yearly,and usually,you could save a lot with its promotion,i used to get a domain at US$6.95/per with a discount of 30% from them.

Answer 6

A domain name is your website address.

Lots of amateur websites on the internet are done through freewebs or other free hosters. They give you a section of there website, so you domain name is www.freewebs.com/whatever-you-call-your-...

This is a domain name but it is not owned by you and is shared.

Some people aren't happy with this and decide to pay for their own domain name i.e.

www.whatever-you-call-your-website.com(o... .co.uk)

This is what you have done. You have bought a domain name, depending on how much you paid, this either lasts forever, or for about 5 to ten years before you need top renew it.

IMPORTANT: Unless this is a special private company i seriously doubt that you need to renew it every year, and it certainly won't cost you £115 and if it does, it shouldn't!

Yes you can register it again by yourself, search in google for hosting websites, or try 1and1.co.uk they're good.

Even if this 'guy' is talking about dedicated hosting it still wouldn't come to that much. Do your research, then ring him back and ask him to break down or explain how he came to £115, then if he says that's just the charge then tell him to stuff himself, and move to a different hosting site.

Also if your unsure freewebs is really helpful and actually offers a premium service that gives you your own domain. So check that. Good luck.

p.s. Don't worry you wont get in trouble, all he provides is a buisness, and if you don't like it then switch, there's LOTS of better competition, btw if you were mislead about what you could do then should be able to claim your money back.

You can't get in trouble, its your money.

Answer 7

When you use the Web or send an e-mail message, you use a domain name to do it. For example, the URL "http://www.ezinedomain.com" contains the domain name ezinedomain.com. So does the e-mail address "[e-mail]."  

Domain names like "ezinedomain.com" are easy for people to remember, but they don't do laptops any good. All of the laptops use names called IP addresses to refer to one another. For example, the laptop that humans refer to as "www.ezinedomain.com" has the IP address 216.163.103.190..(for example only)..

Every time you use a domain name, you use the Internet's domain names servers (DNS) to translate the human-readable domain names into the laptop-readable IP address. During a day of browsing and e-mailing, you might access the domain names servers hundreds of times!  

Domain names servers translate domain names to IP addresses. That is simple, and it would be -- except for five things:  

   "  There are billions of IP addresses currently in use, and most laptops have a human-readable name as well.  

   "  There are many billions of DNS requests made every day. A single person can easily make a hundred or more DNS requests a day, and there are hundreds of millions of  people and laptops using the Internet daily.

   "  Domain names and IP addresses change daily..

   "  New domain names get created daily..

   "  Millions of people do the work to change and add domain names and IP addresses every day.  

The DNS system is a database, and no other database on the planet gets this many requests. No other database on the planet has millions of people changing it every day, either. That is what makes the DNS system so unique!

Answer 8

Its like www.yahoo.co.uk, what your site is called in short terms. If you want to keep the name re register it, but you could probably find it cheaper with a different provider.

Answer 9

It's the name of the website. E.g, .co.nr, .co.uk, .com e.t.c :)

Answer 10

Typically you can get a domain register for only £4.99 for two years for co.uk domain. you can get a cheaper one if the hosting having a promotion, in some case, only cost £0.99 a year. If you want to get a co.uk domain, you can try 1and1. They are quite good.

Alternatively, if you are looking for a .com domain, it is better to get it from a US hosting companies. Current price is about US$9.00 to $10.00 a year.

For hosting your domain, it doesn't matter of where you can host. Currently all my UK .co.uk and US .com domain were hosted in US server. If you want a good hosting company, I will recommend bluehost.com. Their offer currently is the best in the US. Good luck.