By © Arthur, The Home Business Opportunity 

Many NEW Work At Home Business Entrepreneur NEVER realize the important of having CONTROL of their Domain Name when they pay for their Web Hosting Package.

A Domain Name is your MOST important asset because that is HOW web customers will find you.   Eventually, the Search Engine and your Web Customers will associate your Domain Name with your Work At Home Business and imagine HOW much business you will lose if you lost control of it.

What should you look out for when you Register a Domain Name via a Hosting Firm?

The most important thing if you did not register your Domain Name directly, asked for the REGISTRAR website and the USER and PASSWORD so that you can manage the domains DIRECTLY.

Be careful, especially when the FREE PROMOTIONS for signing up is FREE DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION.  Make sure you send an email to check whether you'll be given the REGISTRAR USER and PASSWORD.

Don't be caught in situation where the Hosting Company hold your Domain Name hostage after providing bad services to you as you'll be unable to SWITCH HOSTING without giving up your DOMAIN NAME as they have register your Domain Name under their name.

With the REGISTRAR web site and the LOGIN information you'll have CONTRAL as you can change your bad hosting easily.

To change your hosting services:

1.  First, get your new hosting account and don't cancel the old hosting account until your switch is completed.

2.  The switch may take 48 hours.  Before making the change, note down the old HOST IP ADDRESS by doing a ping on your Windows dos prompt.

For e.g.  ping www.web-site-marketing.com

After changing to the new HOST do a ping again and the IP ADDRESS should be different.

3.  Now, proceed to login to your REGISTRAR web site and search for the section which have the labeled MANAGED DOMAINS, UPDATE DOMAIN INFORMATION or something that sound similiar.

What you need to do is to change the NAMESERVER listing to the nameservers that your new HOST have assigned to you.  The NAMESERVER is the part of the HOST server that inform the world the IP ADDRESS that your DOMAIN NAME is located.  This will probably be similiar to your HOST DOMIAN NAME.

For e.g.
ns1.newhosting.com and
ns2.newhosting.com

ns stands for NAMESERVER.

4.  After making sure that the SWITCH is complete, you can proceed to cancel your old HOST and your web site and your SEARCH ENGINE RANKING will not be AFFECTED by the transition.

Usually, a large and established web hosting company like Site Build It are more reliable and they will specify before hand on their website that the Domain Name will be yours.

Be on a look out for such guarantee on your chosen Web hosting Website:

Purchase Site Build It! today. Use it. Even register your domain name (it's included in the price).

If at any point in time SBI! does not exceed your expectations, we will refund you immediately and you can keep the domain name that you registered as our thank-you for giving us a chance at your business.

Only by trying can you discover what you and SBI! will accomplish together. And we take all the risk while you try.

No other package comes with this Guarantee of Success, because quite frankly, there is nothing else that compares to Site Build It!.

Therefore, for small web hosting or not so well known company without any guarantee, the best way if you are serious of Starting your Work At Home Business Online, is to SEPARATE your Domain Name Registration with your Web Hosting Provider as to avoid any unnecessary dispute when you want to change your Web Hosting Provider.  It might cost a little bit more money to separate them but it will be money well spend.

Wishing you success in Starting your Work At Home Business Online.

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