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different? All right. Let's get started. What's up guys? Welcome back to another Q&A mini podcast where we

answer your questions about online business. Our question today comes from Mark Biggs and Mark writes,

what service did you use to register your first domains and where did you host your websites

when you started out in your online business? All right, Mark, we actually get this question

quite often and we always buy all of our domains through

name cheap.com. And there's really no particular reason why. We just heard about it when we were

first starting out and we checked it out and thought that it looked good. So we started using

them as very inexpensive to register domains there. And we have just always used them and never had any issues.

Now, it is important that you register your domain name through a different person than your

hosting provider. Name cheap is not a host. They're not a actual place you can put your website.

They just register domains. And the reason that you want to keep those separate is because

if you ever decide to change hosting companies, and you might that you want to keep those separate is because if you ever

decide to change hosting companies and you might, you want to make sure that you will be able to

easily change that. If something happens in your domain and host or registered through the same,

say maybe you have a billing error and something can't be paid, then your hosting company can

hold on to that domain and not

release it if something like that ever were to happen. If you don't have them registered at the

same place, all you have to do is log in to your domain name provider and just change those

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