Need help with domain transition...

[sbucklan]

I'm not real knowledgeable about this stuff, so if someone can give it to me in layman's terms, that'd be awesome.

I registered my domain and signed up for a hosting plan with UplinkEarth back in October. For several reasons, I've decided to leave them in favor of JaguarPC. So far JPC rocks, incredibly! Anyway, I now need to update things so that the domain name brings people to the new server at JPC but I really can't figure out how to do it. Do I contact my old host (Uplinkearth)? Do i contact the company that registered my domain (Bulk Register)? Or do I open a ticket with JPC?


I know... I'm a newbie... but you gotta start somewhere.

Thanks for your help!

Scott

[Julian Muñoz]

What you need to do is to update your DNS records to the Name severs here at JaguarPC... You need to contact your actual registrar (the company where you registered your domain).

If you haven't transfered your domain, then I guess it should be UplinkEarth... Talk to them.

[sbucklan]

Julian, muchas gracias. Me ha ayudado muchisimo.

-Scott

[Vin DSL]

Hrm... Okay, well, here's the deal...

You own a domain name --- that's a given (public records prove it) --- and you will continue to own it as long as you keep paying ransom to a 'registrar.' At some point, you needed to pick a 'registrar' to suck the money out of you --- or maybe someone else picked one for you. It doesn't matter. In your case, you ended up with "BULKREGISTER.COM, INC." as your 'registrar.' I don't know anything about these ppl, but from the looks of their web site I would say they are bending you over the table, Honey.

I would say Uplinkearth is totally out of the picture except their contact information is still attached to your domain name. That won't hurt anything because nobody will ever contact them unless they want to take some action against you, like what happened to me one time. Long story. Let's not get side-tracked. You're named as the owner --- that's all that matters.

I love JagPC, so don't get me wrong, but I also love Dotster too. I use Dotster as my 'registrar.' They're not the cheapest 'registrar' around --- I pay 15 bones a year --- but I like the service I get there, which is basically no service at all. That is, their 'control panel' allows me 100% access to my domain name records. I control ever facit of it. They don't do squat except suck $15/yr out of me, and that's fine by me. They're up 24/7 and I've never had a problem with them.

I don't know who changed it, but your records are pointing to the correct name servers here at JagPC. However, your contact info is screwy. If it was me, I would dump those thieves in a New York minute and transfer my domain name to Dotster. Be aware, however, that "BULKREGISTER.COM, INC." is going to charge you money to do this. These guys are professional thieves...

I would move my domain name to Dotster and then take care of the contact info myself. I would list myself as the responsible party in all the contact areas, and I would pay it up for the next 5 years. As a matter of fact, that's exactly what I did, with my domain name, except my former registrar was Network Solutions --- the biggest thief of them all ---so I'm not talking out my rear quarter.

Anyway, that's about the size of it. There's you, the 'registrar', and the web host. Kinda like an egg, with a shell, a yoke, and an egg white. One egg --- three parts.