practicalities of blogging

[Chris Borokowski]

Dreamhost operates like any other registrar: you own the domain name,
but must pay a yearly fee to keep it alive. I think that yearly fee is
waived for up to three domains if you host through Dreamhost, but it
has been some time since I've registered anything.

There are regulations about portability, but enforcement varies and is
often lax. Another way to put this is that if your domain is down
because of a squabble with a registrar, you will lose because it will
take a year for it to be resolved -- and during that time your domain
will be down.

The one act I recommend, wherever you register, is to make sure that
you control both technical and administrative contacts.

--- "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin.McLauchlan at safenet-inc.com> wrote:

> So... does Dreamhost _sell_ you your domain registration (for its
> lifespan) or just rent it to you only while you are with them?  (As
> we
> were warned to verify by another poster yesterday.)
> 
> I understand that there are regulations about portability, but I
> wonder
> what their scope is. If you are in a different country than your
> Registrar, do they apply rules of their country, or rules of your
> country when it comes to portability and other considerations?  What
> are
> the chances of a domain being held hostage if you wish to change
> registrars?  I can see where that would be annoying for hobbyist
> bloggers, and fiscally life-threatening for businesses with
> established
> online identities (as most seem to be these days). 
> For example, I'm in Canada. goDaddy would have even less reason to
> respect my claim on their paid-for services than for somebody south
> of
> here. What about Dreamhost? Others?   Has anybody got a good feel for
> this kind of thing?  Is it a non-issue, mostly?


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