Hey, hello there all.

As new owners of domains, I appreciate this thread's advice greatly. It wasn't till we (my husband and I) decide that we should stay as anonymous as possible before we published our sites online, did we understand the runaround they'd give us on trying to transfer a domain, from the same host where we had our webpage, to one who had WhoisGuard available.

We sent numerous emails for them to unlock the domain to be tranferred. At first it looked like they were going to do something about it and then it seemed to wither on the vine with no returned communications even after our NUMBEROUS emails to continue. It wasn't until my husband wrote a nasty gram to the host announcing his intent to cancel after the 3rd payment as agreed in contract. Then we cancelled the subscription for payment to the host in paypals and informed the host in that email that we wanted to be billed directly to our email each month. We figured if they wanted their money, they'd have to contact us and in doing so we'd finally have their attention. Guess you could say it was our way to starve them out.

After reading all the great advice here, it seems it might be smart to transfer our other domain as well just to make sure we have control of that one as well.

We are considering Namecheap.com to switch our domain to and would appreciate some feedback for experience with them. Is there another more suggested but who has WhoisGuard as well but not seriously expensive? Thanx.

Lil' Red

Getting hosting from the same registrar where you've registered your domain name is always a mess. Secondly I would suggest one should register domain name independently for your good control on it rather than registering it through your host provider.

I'm just truly pleased that so many members benefited from so many members advice on this one. I certainly did. The general opinion was as I thought...host seperately!

Thanks to everyone who posted to date.

its good to get both from the same place.. coz they'll give you a single control panel to manage all your products for the domain.. makes it very convinient.. and make sure to go to reputed company.