[ale] OT Web hosting/domain registration catch 22

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph Knapka)]

Jim Lynch <jwl at sgi.com> writes:

> OK, so I found a cheap domain registration site and an almost cheaper
> web host.  So who do I go to first?  The web host wants to know my
> domain name during sign up and the domain register wants the dns
> addresses of the web host.  
> 
> Which one do you normally go to?  The only other domain I registed I got
> from the same site that hosted it.

I register the domain, tell the registrar to handle the DNS for me,
buy the hosting service, then move the DNS from the registrar to the
host.

Cheers,

-- Joe
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