Correct me if I am wrong. If you registered a domain, you ARE the owner. A hosting company simply lets you "park" your domain at their company in order to host your web site. You can move it to any other hosting company as long as you don't have any long term contract that forbids that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Reeds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 07:06 AM Subject: Re: Java Hosting > > Don't know, sorry. I have my domain name from a different company > > entirely. I could find out easily enough, but what's the difference? > > The difference is that if I don't like the hosting and decide to go > elsewhere or start my own hosting of the domain I can ask that that they > change the DNS accordingly. However if they actually own the domain for the > purposes of hosting my website they can decide not to relinquish the domain > or charge a fortune for it (technically referred to as 'shafting you'). > I've emailed them asking to clarify and also asked for the response to be > sent to my home address so I won't be able to inform this list until monday. > > I am hoping it is the former as a tenner is good value for money. Currently > I am with http://easily.co.uk and wished I read the small print and not just > gone with a recommendation from a friend. > > G. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
