Hosting and Domains in the US
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Hello,
In the UK I have my domains hosted with a company and my hosting with another company.
I can change the DNS so the domain works with the webhosting.
Can this be setup in the USA in the same way or does the hosting and domain need to be with the same company?
Thanks.
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I went away on holiday and came back today to find a confusion with our IT Department and external Web Developers.
They stopped transferring a website because they couldn't find the setting in the 1&1 control panel.
The IT Department mentioned the USA doing things differently so instead of going with my gut reaction I thought I would post here and see if there is a difference. I know that to get hosting on a US server you need a US billing address so thought there might have been a regulation with nameservers too.
All sorted, cheers guys.
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you are in no doubt correct Simon, but i woonder if the IT people were talking of somthing else.
i wonder if they mean that the domain being registered in the UK, and pointing to the US would have a affect on geo location i the eyes of google.
I just cant see why the IT staff would say such a thing, unless there is a mis-understanding. -
You're welcome Gary.
If you'd like to provide your IT department with even more reassurance (via Rackspace US), check out the first paragraph of http://www.rackspace.com/apps/support/portal/1164 which shows that in the US, you can have your domain(s) registered with one registrar and your website hosted with another.
Regards
Simon
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Hi Simon,
Thanks for the info and links. Our IT department had me thinking it was different in the US.
Cheers.
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Hi Gary
Yes you can, domain & nameserver settings are global, so you can have the same kind of configuration that you have in the UK in many different countries.
Some hosting providers may not like this though as they'd prefer everything to be hosted through and done with them.
Check out http://www.godaddy.com/tlds/info.aspx?tld=info&ci=16860 and http://help.godaddy.com/article/668?locale=en&app_hdr=0 which shows that with GoDaddy you can certainly do this.
Hope that helps,
Regards
Simon
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