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I've been running my own website and domain for years, and the host and domain name are separate services as Alex intimated. You can get your host to pay your domain name fee as part of their service but it's not automatic. I get billed every two years for my domain name by Nominet and I'm on my (I think) fourth host.
TBH I'd be very wary of a registration made by an individual. No
offence intended to anyone /of course/ and I apologise if any is
inferred. However none of us can see the future and there could be
many reasons an individual is unable or unwilling to continue
paying and that might not be communicated to those who need to
know. Might I suggest an intermediary of sorts, such as a bank
account in the DC GLUG name with access restricted to maybe three
people and registration paid from it? Possibly linked to a
non-personal postal address ' DC GLUG, PO Box XXXXX' to which more
than one person has access? That way if there is a problem for one
person another can resolve it.
Kind regards,
Julian
I don't believe the domain is paid for by GoDaddy. We only use GoDaddy as a domain registrar and my understanding is that Matt (very kindly) continues to pay for the domain.
We don't need to transfer it to another doman registrar to be able to host it as we please, we already do that. We don't use any other aspect of GoDaddy's services.
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, Helen McCall wrote:
Hi Paul and everyone else.
The Nominet registration shows that the dcglug.org.uk is actually owned
and paid for by godaddy.com.
This means that someone in 2004 made the grave mistake of registering
the name with a hosting company!
The Nominet registration shows that the dcglug.org.uk name is "Renewal
Restricted" with "Client Renew Prohibited". So godaddy.com are unable
to renew the name on the 4th December this year.
What is needed is for someone to contact Nominet to check that we can
ourselves buy the domain name, using a trusted member (suggest Paul
Sutton since he has most of the contributions on our website) to
register it in their own name directly with Nominet. Then we will be
free to use any hosting that we want to use.
Helen McCall
On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:32:50 +0100
Paul Sutton via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All
Thank you for all the responses so far with this, lets see what
happens.
Paul
On 15/09/2025 19:34, Paul Sutton via list wrote:
Hi
I just wondered who was in control of the Domain name for the lug
and the hosting.?
I am just asking as the current website is getting rather old, and
harder for me to maintain, so as I have my own domain, I set up
grav (which is what I use on my website) on a subdomain have along
with a few other lug members on the Matrix channel have been
working on a potential new website.
I felt doing this was better than just posting here to the list
that we need a better and as I was mostly the one trying to keep it
going, decided to see if I can create something that has more up to
date information and is easier to maintain.
Just asking.
Thanks
Paul
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