What happens if the website I have my domain name hosted at, closes down?
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First, do a whois lookup (I use iwhois.com since it's comprehensive) and note the registrant and administrative contact details. If it's under your name and your email's listed, you have some degree of control.\n\nNext, using iwhois.com will tell you if it's with an actual "domain registrar" or a "reseller" for one. If it's the latter, it'll tell you who the actual registrar is.\n\nThen contact that actual registrar based on their URL and ask how to gain access to it first. Your first order of business is to ensure you have full access and control before you can transfer it to another provider of your choice.\n\nFeel free to ask more if you need help.
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It depends on the DNS name of the site you are connecting to. Some sites alias www.site.com and site.com... so either address would work. However, if the site only registers www.site.com, then site.com won't work.\n\nSo, it all depends on what the owner of the site registered as their DNS name.\n\nCheers :)
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Let me get this straight:\n\n1. You did a WHOIS on the domain name and saw it was taken last week.\n\n2. You called up Go Daddy and they told you it's available.\n\n3. You took it on the spot.\n\nLucky you. :)\n\nOne possibility: domain kiting/tasting. Read about it via the link I included.\n\nYour legal rights are dictated by your registrar's service agreement. Make sure you read and know what your rights are...before a judge reads it for you.
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since you bought a domain then you have done part of your job the next thing is buying a host.\n\nFrom your question it seems as if this is your first time hosting a website. \n\nI will give you a professional and personal advice free.\n\nWhenever you want to host a website it is advisable that you buy the website hosting package as most package often include free or paid domain. \n\nBuying a domain and then later paying a website hosting package is a waste of money.\n\n\n\nIf you need more free professional advice  on Computer and the Internet then visit\n\nwww.freewebs.com/zion23401 \nor email\nalexzubi@aol.com
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Then please update the page and wait for some time the Search engines will carwl the page again and again then the description and keywords that are underconstruction right now will change. After that you can sell your domain name. You can sell it on http://www.sedo.com http://www.nameslot.com http://www.namepros.com
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Yes, you need someplace to host your webpages so that others can view them.  The domain name is merely a friendly address people can use to get to your site.\n\nI use and suggest Dreamhost for hosting.
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unfortunately, there's not a whole lot you can do to recover your hijacked domain name, short of paying whatever fee they would be charging to get it back. most people in your situation end up having to start a new name and go from there.\n\nit is critical to renew asap and not give them a window to let this happen -- which reminds me, mine expires in two weeks.... :)\n\ngood luck!
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If you're talking about trying to register the domain name, then it's because it has already been registered by Tony Chris on 23 March 2006.\n\nIf you are trying to visit the site and can't then it's probably a network problem and I'd suggest just trying again later.
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Your experience is very common. But without further details no one can say whether there's "foul suspected".\n\nOnly ICANN-accredited domain registrars can truly register domain names. But they form reseller partnerships with other companies to expand their services, especially hosting providers.\n\nUnfortunately not all resellers register a domain name in real time. Some actually put orders on queue and forward them to their registrar partner to register...if they're available.\n\nA lot can happen within a few minutes, especially if multiple parties are trying to register for the same name at the same time.\n\nBut to answer your question, no. Not yet, anyway.\n\nOn the other hand, there's another practice called "domain kiting" or domain tasting that's been going on. Essentially some parties register a domain name that's been "looked up", taste whatever traffic or see if anyone's interested in it, then either let it go within 120 hours (5 days) or keep it.\n\nIf what I explained above indeed occurred, don't contact the current registrant of the domain name and don't look it up on your browser. Give it about 120 hours (5 days) from its initial creation date.\n\nWith luck, it might become available by then. If it is, be sure to register it with a REAL domain registrar like Go Daddy, Domainsite, etc.\n\nBut again, without further details (like the domain name's WHOIS record minus the name), it's hard to say what possibly occurred. It could be coincidental for all we know.\n\nGood luck and good hunting.
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This is a setting that gets change with the company you registered your domain name with.  \n\nFor example: If you bought your domain through godaddy.com, you would need to go to their website, login with the information they provided when you registered and change the dns settings.\n\nYou probably already know this part, but the setting you are looking for look something like: \ndns.yourhostingcompanyname.com\ndns.yourhostingcompanyname2.com\n\nFeel free to contact me directly if you need more assistance.
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Odds are the server is down.  It happens from time to time.  Give the host time to get their computers up and running and it should be back up and running.  If not, they may not have paid their domain or website fees.
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Hi\n\nI think you need to get the control of your domain first. Your hosting company would have taken a reseller account with registrar and maintain your domain in bulk. So what you need to do is, do a whois search and find the registrar. You can do the whois search at www.allwhois.com or www.dnsstuff.com. Here you can find the registrar name and site. Then go to the registrar site and contact them. To contact them and do some changes to domain name you should be the owner of domain. This you can check while doing whois search. If the registrars is taking time to respond and your the domain owner according to the whois database you could intiate a domain transfer thru which you can gain control of the domain name. But this will take 5 days as its a automated process. Try emailing www.netandhost.com so that they can assist you with domain transfer. Email them with the domain name to avoid delays. If your not the owner of the domain name as per whois details then only your old hosting company can help you instantly.
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if the domain was improperly spelled and does not exist it will come back as undeliverable.\n\nif the user is misspelled then it will go the the catch all inbox for that domain which may or may not accept it and may or may not be looked at depending on how they manage it at that domain.\n\nuser@domain.com
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you could add the address to your hosts file or in the restricted sites zone in IE properties\n\nas for the timer thing youd need a seperate program to do that (quite easy to write i imagine)
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Check with the company that you used to register your domain how long it will take to be activated.\n\nto check to see if it is working, just type your URL into the browser address and see if it comes up.
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Just go to http://www.mydomain.com
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You can go to any domain registrar and check for the availability of a domain.  If the domain is not available, most will offer suggestions of alternative options.  Network Solutions is good but very expensive for registration.  You can find cheaper domain registration through:\n\nGoDaddy - http://www.godaddy.com\nYahoo (limited to certain domain suffixes) - http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/