Domain and hosting: the difference
Your domain is your web address, like yourbusiness.co.uk. Hosting is where the website itself is stored and served from. You can keep your domain with the company you bought it from and point it at a website hosted somewhere else.
Find where it’s registered
If you’re not sure where you bought it, search your email for the domain name and words like “renewal”. The company sending renewal reminders is usually where it’s registered. You’ll need to be able to log in there.
Connecting your new website
This usually means changing a couple of settings, called DNS records, in your domain account. I’ll guide you through it, or make the change for you with your permission.
Keeping your email working
If you already have email on your domain, those settings need to stay as they are. I check them before changing anything, so your email keeps working while the new website goes live.
You stay the owner
Your domain stays registered in your name. If it’s registered elsewhere, you can keep renewing it there as you do now.
Got a domain but no website?
Tell me the web address and what you’d like your website to do, and I’ll explain the next step.
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