Domain Hosting Question

[A B Tross]

Some info please:

 

At this time I have 2 sites (Irontross.com and ktpa.us ) hosted with totalchoice and could not be more satisfied. Always when asked about web hosting I refer people here. MY question is this:

 

I am setting up hosting for another local anti-tax group that already owns the domain name kkptcause.com, however the site is blank. This site has gone un-used for about 5 months now, and for some reason unknow to me the files that were on it are now gone, but that is of no matter to us. The individual that purchased this domain is still in ownership of it, and the group would like to reactivate it. As a donation to their cause I took the responsibility of purchasing hosting for it here at totalchoice (my only choice ). I have read around the forum that I woould need to contact the original host and have some pointing done to this hosting site? A bit confusing to me. Also, no one has been able to recall who hosted the site previously... not good huh.

 

Anyway, before I purchase the hosting space here; can someone please explain to me just how, or even if, I am going to be able to use that domain name wiht no knowledge of where it is hosted now? Any thoughts or sugjestions?

 

A B Tross

[TCH-Rick]

I ran a Whois search on the domain and it appears that register.com is handling the domain registration. You can click on this link to see the information including the Administrative Contact. If you can log into the domain control at register.com then you would only need to change the nameservers to ns1.totalchoicehosting.com and ns2.totalchoicehosting.com to have the domain point here. The domain is up for renewal in August. You could transfer the domain registration to us by going to our Domain Registration page and transfer the registration to us for $10.95. This would extend the registration for another year as well. The Administrative Contact would receive an email to confirm the transfer and would need to approve it.

[A B Tross]

such speed in answering! what a place. Thanks!

 

if I transfer the registration over as to your sugjestion, would that eliminate the need to re-point the nameservers? Would I have to go thru the site propogation stage? When you mention the Administrative Contact, does this refer to the site owner?, if so I can alert him so that he does not inadvertainly delete the e-mail thinking it to be spam of whatever?

[ThumpAZ]

I believe that moving the registration to TCH would negate the need to repoint the DNS entries, as they should default to TCH's name servers. If not, then it is an easy fix.

You will have to go through the propagation process, as you are moving nameservers... no matter which route you take (keeping resitration at register.com or moving to TCH). There is just no way around this. You could, though, grab all of the pages on the current site and go ahead and upload them all to the new TCH account prior to changing registration info. This will lead to very few blips in experiences with the static portions of the site.

Administrative contact is listed as Edward Geoghan, this person is the one who has to approve the registration change. His email is listed in the link Rick has in his post above. This email address is where the question will go to, and where the response for approval will have to come from.

So you are correct, you need to alert this person of your intentions and have him respond accordingly, or you can ask him to log in to the registration info and change the contact information to someone else prior to registration changes.

-GG

[A B Tross]

Thank you Glenn. Ed G has been notified to expect this change already. My only fear there is with his limited web experience he carries his end out ok... At any rate, the hosting is purchased and the domain transfer link was used, hang out and see I guess..... have a good one.