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Can a domain be obtained and used without a domain registrar?
You can run a website on an IP address like http://192.0.2.4/. Doing so does not require a domain name. However, IP addresses are typically tied to a specific hosting company or internet service ...
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Firebase hosting: www.example.com redirect to example.com says "domain not verified"
I have had the same issue, example.com worked just fine but www.example.com didn't. Turned out that www.example.com needs www in the name value instead of @ for reason unknown, But @ worked for ...
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Old registrar had DNSSEC enabled and after transferring, the new registrar doesn't support it. Now the site won't load
Could this be due to DNSSEC?
Yes, but impossible to be sure as you do not give the domain name involved, not even the TLD (rules change about transfers and DNSSEC data depending on the TLD). ...
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How can a domain be showing as pendingDelete & redemptionPeriod, but not expire for another year?
This is absolutely normal, at least for a gTLD (you didn't even mention the TLD...)
The expiration date was 2020-06-18. At this time the registry auto renewed the domain, which means if you look at ...
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Can my domain registrar requests high price for renewal if my domain became famous?
The first reason is competition.
The registrar cannot force you to stay with them and there are tons of registrars. If they charged you 10 times their public price you'd just go to the next one.
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Domain Renewal - Unable to contact current registrar
I resolved the issue. It appears that Endurance owns multiple reseller registrars under them - and dint know which one to contact.
I tried the my luck with few of their reseller site's support (all ...
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Do search engines ever ignore unconventional domain suffixes?
There are only two cases I am aware of where Google treats domains differently.
Google automatically geotargets ccTLDs to their corresponding country, except for ccTLDs that have been genericized ...
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Why aren't gTLD domains sold in a unified price?
Why aren't gTLD domains sold in a unified price?
Why should they? We live in a world where economy is bound by offers and demands, isn't it? So sellers are free to set their prices, and buyers are ...
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Can I transfer a domain out of Route 53 (AWS) where it was purchased?
Yes, you can completely divorce yourself from AWS. I am unclear where you read that a domain name "always belongs to the original registrar where you bought your domain." - This is largely ...
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I'm trying to migrate my website to a new hosting provider. They insist that I must unlock the domain name and whois privacy, why?
It is very unusual for a web host to insist on becoming your domain registrar. Some hosting companies also offer domain registration and can bundle service for registration, DNS hosting, and web ...
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How to register domain for 15 years?
First, why 15 years? Why not 13 or 17 or 21 or 33? Or 42? Or 100? Or perpetuity?
Anyway, it is impossible to answer your question since it depends on the TLD of your domain name. Each registry is ...
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Should renewal price of gTLD will always be identical to the price of purchase?
The pricing of a given domain depends on the registry and the registrars. Most registries have the same price for registration and renewal, but especially with new gTLDs, registries sometimes run ...
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Is there a way to re-acquire an expired domain without paying the huge fees for a "Premium" domain?
We never really own domains.
We apply to rent them when they aren't being rented by anyone else and then we continue to rent them on an ongoing yearly basis.
Any time we stop renting them, another ...
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Transferring a domain name that's about to expire
No, there are no rules I am aware of as a domain reseller, but it might differ with some of the new TLDs. It might be worth clarifying with ICANN.
There are somethings to be mindful of.
It ...
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Can I transfer a domain out of Route 53 (AWS) where it was purchased?
AWS Route 53 is a domain registrar[1], a company that is hooked into the greater domain name system and has a license to sell domain names to their customers and hold them in the customer's name.
To ...
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Can I change to a cheaper domain registrar when renewing a domain?
Find the cheapest renewal price you can1 and then institute a registration transfer2. It differs a bit between extensions e.g. .com is different to .co.uk which is different to .com.au.
Note the you ...
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The difference in domain name prices
Simple answer. Registrars can charge what they want.
Want more? Ok.
Becoming a registrar requires a HUGE investment in network bandwidth, equipment, backups, personnel, fees, company website ...
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My domain registrar has gone bankrupt but the domain is locked, what can I do?
I’m currently helping out a friend of mine to regain access to her domain name, as the registrar has been unresponsive to emails and voicemails.
In this situation, if ICANN also finds that the ...
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How to preserve SEO when transferring registrar?
If I understand your question correctly you are not changing the domain name, just the registrar behind the domain name. If that is the case then there is nothing you need to do special to preserve ...
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Can a domain be obtained and used without a domain registrar?
OK, let's talk through how your web browser turns www.example.com into an IP address, assuming that it doesn't already have anything cached, which it undoubtedly will if you've ever done any DNS ...
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Why is RDAP so poorly supported by domain name registries?
Because RDAP adoption started in fact with IP addresses registries (RIRs), where it is really used in production whereas the cases you cite are not all real production ones. See this recent ...
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Old registrar had DNSSEC enabled and after transferring, the new registrar doesn't support it. Now the site won't load
The same DNSSEC transfer issue has just happened to me. I am far from being a pro network engineer and it took me a while to troubleshoot the problem. Thanks to Patrick's excellent answer, I'm back ...
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Can my domain registrar requests high price for renewal if my domain became famous?
Besides the fact that your question may depend on the TLD, the answer is "probably nothing", except that if this practice becomes known I think it would attract bad buzz and hence clients going ...
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Transferring a domain name that's about to expire
Is there any guideline in place from ICANN about the number of days before expiry past which a domain name can't be transferred from one registrar to another?
They aren't (and also remember that ...
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Understanding the cost of a domain under a "premium" TLD such as .rich, .inc, .auto, .car, or .pr
how those domains prices get establish?
There is nothing to understand. Registries decide the price of their premium domain names based on what they want and how much they think they should cost that ...
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Domain Renewal - Unable to contact current registrar
I would have thought that enameco is a reseller and that the upstream registrar is really ENDURANCE. But it looks like they are Icann accredited. There is no mention of that registrar being terminated ...
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Is it usually better to establish hosting for a domain based email account with a domain registrar or web host?
When you create a website and email for a domain name you generally have to purchase four services:
Domain registration
DNS hosting
Website hosting
Email hosting
Each of those four could be with ...
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Godaddy expired domain transfer
I finally figured it out.
You need to turn off the "domain protection" plan.
GoDaddy has a domain protection plan to protect privacy etc. Now when the domain expires you can't downgrade/turn ...
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Are you allowed to register a .com.au domain that contains a famous brand's trademark?
You can register it in some registrars. It's not a problem, and it's completley legit to register something that is nonexisting.
But, In this case, when the DNS is propagated, you'll lose your domain ...
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Domain name transfer: do you lose years left at current registrar?
Note Maximum Registration Period and auto-renew grace period
Typically. you should expect the registration fee to add an additional year to your current renewal date. Keep in mind that the date at ...
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