A question of name
See I have this very domain (nb42.com) expiring next month, which will auto-renew in 8 days’ time. It’s attached to a hosting plan. I have another domain (nimishbatra.com) which is essentially useless because of eWebGuru (my registrar+host) having a one-domain-per-hosting-account rule.
What I want to do is shift to a new registrar and host.
My requirements are simple.
nimishbatra.com should be the blog and nothing else, while nb42.com/blog should redirect to it. nb42.com I want to keep as a testing ground for apps.
Currently eWG has “parked domains” (but no facility for “addon domains”) where I can redirect nimishbatra.com to nb42.com/blog, but it’s not a transparent redirect. So nimishbatra.com/about turns into nb42.com/blog/about – which is quite thoroughly useless and waste of a domain if you ask me. I believe this missing thing is called “domain forwarding” and I shouldn’t be looking at paying extra for it.
What I’ve been thinking of doing is
1. Get a free account at x10hosting and register domains from an independent registrar and use here.
or
2. Find an ultra reliable reg+host, get the full package from them (i.e. 2 domains transferred and the ability to host both from a single package).
or
3. Use this for my blog and go to 1/2 for hosting the apps etc.
So what should I go for?
Domain registrars I’ve been looking at.
1. Back to eWebGuru.
2. NetLynx is ICANN accredited.
3. GoDaddy is famous.
4. Saw this cheap thing on a Google ad.
5. I came across this… I remember having heard of them – good or bad, can’t say.
6. Someone once said IndiaLinks is good?
7. There is eNom or Moniker – apparently highly rated, but I can’t see their rates anywhere.
8. Another famous brand would be NameCheap.
… help?
March 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
I have multiple domains (only) with both name.com and godaddy.com… have been fine for the past 2 to 3 years.
You can search for some GoDaddy coupons some of them give amazing discounts.
March 14th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Godaddy from my personal experience is good! Have been using it since past 3 years…
You can give a try to ixwebhosting as well.
March 16th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
1. Get a reseller of ResellerClub.com
1a. Wrest domain control panel username & password from them
1b. Add Domain Transfer secret
1c. Lock down controls to prohibit domain transfer
2. Buy DNS redirection service (hardly a few cents a year)
3. Play around with controls to redirect web traffic using redirect at DNS level
[or]
A. use Blogger.com for hosting and use DNS redirection to show custom url’s in the address bar.
Cheers!
Yogesh
March 21st, 2009 at 9:03 am
The problem is with wordpress and not parked domains. Your wp-config would have an entry for nb42 which causes any request to redirect to this blog.
Easy way out is to install WP on nimi…tra domain and then copy your database and themes off to this domain. Not sure if you need to edit the database but just check for any traces for nb42 string and replace it appropriately in the database.
April 1st, 2009 at 1:04 am
@Rohit – love your Konqi icon, need to get gravatar
Sorry Nimish for hogging ur blog space
April 3rd, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Use godaddy only for the domains ( they come with domain redirection if I remember)..forward nb.com to nb42.com/blog with domain masking…
April 9th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Ankit – Good lord, I’m banning the next “hippie” comment. I swear.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:51 am
And use Open-ID. Screw Gravatar.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I’m sorry it took so long to come up with this, but I believe, and this is truly incredible, that the domain http://www.blahblahblah.com is available.
June 4th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Mon ami! Trez Incredibil!!!! And more faux french!
June 10th, 2009 at 3:45 am
I have been using nxghosting.com for more than a year now and they allow to host unlimited websites with their gold plan and its real cheap. Hope that helps.