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Why You Want Web Hosting and Domain Registration in Your Name

When it comes to launching your website, you’ll likely hire a web designer or developer to help you get your site online.

Like your car mechanic, you hire them for their knowledge and experience in designing, developing, and publishing a website.

One area web designers and developers know about is web hosting and domain registration.

While many will offer to set up hosting and register your domain name, I always recommend clients buy their own web hosting and domain registration.

September 24, 2018 By Deborah Edwards-Onoro

A few years ago I shared the story of my friend Heidi, whose site was suspended when her domain name registration expired.

Imagine you’ve moved a client to a new web host. You’ve updated their nameservers and the client’s site has propagated.

But the old site is still displaying.