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As far as renewals and DNS settings at your registrar, there's really not much to it. Unless you are changing your webhost you shouldn't have to mess with DN registration with renewals. If you are changing webhosts, just point the appropriate DNS records to the new IP address...simples.
One other thing, the company you lease your domain names from would probably love to sell you on a hosting plan, but that's up to you. You can even self-host if you have broadband and a static IP.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: You can even self-host if you have broadband and a static IP.
I used to have a static IP and hosted my server here at home in my office, but since 2003,the ISPs I've talked to won't issue a static Ip unless it's in their serverfarm.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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kmoorevs wrote: ...1 major power/ISP outage last year w/Michael. (the hurricane, not MM!) 
But I was the Hurricane, or actually Cyclone as I'm southern hemisphere based.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I used Network solutions for years, but when I recently moved to a new server, I used the server's registrar. The transfer was easy, once I got NS to release the lock on the registration.
The only complaint with NS was the price, but I registered with them since 1991.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Originally on GoDaddy, I am moving everything off their services as they expire. For a combo of a domain + low-cost web hosting, I moved to NameCheap BUT I had a need for the free email forwards included - if that's of no concern to you then other registrar options become viable.
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Here's a quora.com answer to your question, maybe one of the answers there has the answer you need. Some of them point to discussion areas. Wear gloves.
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-famous-domain-hosting-discussion-forums[^]
I'm not sure what is making you cagey about asking the questions you need to ask.
My own experience:
Got tired of having to give out new emails every time I changed jobs or some email company went out of business. And I was worried about potential clients being able to follow me every time I had to change email addresses. And friends and colleagues as well. This was before Gmail and Linkedin existed. Got a sudden inspiration for a 6 letter domain name. Bought it from GoDaddy and have used them since. My wife and I both have been using webmail since 2001 because it was easier to use while we were doing a lot of contract work and would switch jobs frequently. This was also pre-smartphone and the tendency of people to carry an email client in their pocket.
My most heavy use and interaction with GoDaddy and domain use is still around email.
I have one full domain dedicated to my job hunting. I send all recruiters and job boards to emails there and that allows me to dedicate a single separate Gmail account to read all the crap that comes down that pipe.
I have an account I use for signing up for websites that insist on an account to move forward, which allows me to catch their future "marketing efforts" into a garbage bin. My virtual secretary, Mags.
I have a set of forwards and accounts that do dedicated jobs for me. On-call alerts, game sites where they email me my turn, that sort of thing.
And any other companies I do business with I hand them their company name as the user and they go to the catchall account. e.g. bestbuy@mydomain.com
I never hand out an email that isn't a forwarder. It reduces successful hacking attempts if the hacker tries to log into accounts that don't exist.
For domains: I never buy a domain for more than a year at a time. I never agree to have all the domains renew on the same day. I do use auto-renew. The credit card is dedicated to a set of auto-pay accounts, so if it gets compromised my other credit cards are insulated and if we see something inappropriate on the bill it will stick out like a sore thumb.
Godaddy has been adequate. Never exceptional but they do their job and usually don't create problems which is what I look for in a vendor of this kind of service.
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A logician deducts the truth.
A detective inducts the truth.
A journalist abducts the truth.
Give a man a mug, he drinks for a day. Teach a man to mug...
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Rubbish conversation insults me (5, 4)
modified 2-Jul-19 4:44am.
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SMALL TALK?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nope!
Not gonna lie... I'm pretty chuffed I got a wrong guess out of it 
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Think more American 
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COVFEFE doesn't fit!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Correct!
Well done, over to you for tomorrow's clue.
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Only by knowing the theme and being American got me this one, I'm so glad you solved it 3 hours before I saw the clue.
@OrginialGriff, you mentioned me in a post about the CCC while I was on vacation. I may comment on the CCC but I never try to win. I think I've got about 3 of them in the past if you include today's. I study how the clues are put together and how they produce an answer but I can say it is a language I am having a difficult time learning and I surely need to be able to read the language before I would ever attempt to compose a sentence in it.
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MarkTJohnson wrote: Only by knowing the theme and being American got me this one
I didn't even know this was something only Americans use. I solved it 'cause of all the movies and seasons I've watched (Mostly American).
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MarkTJohnson wrote: I surely need to be able to read the language before I would ever attempt to compose a sentence in it.
Actually, I think this is one time where practising the writing will help you get better at reading... you know, helps you get in the mindset of a clue setter sort of approach.
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So I'm just sitting here, refreshing the lounge, waiting for the CCC to pop up...
Only just remembered it's my turn. 
Good job I prepped it yesterday!
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musefan wrote: Only just remembered it's my turn.
Is it Scrotum?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Michael Martin wrote: Is it Scrotum?
Well... at least I don't have to post the clue now
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Michael Martin wrote: Is it Scrotum?
I think you've bagged it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... because I was in Kyiv for some other event, so I took a tour to Chernobyl. One of my weirdest experience in my life, part of it being that I am still not sure that on that very day only I haven't got the radiation dose I should have had in my whole life. They sell it as "during your flight over here, you took more than gamma radiation than on the site in a whole day", but meeeh, not 100% convinced. Even if I am still not glowing when I smile in the night.
It is strange to visit a catastrophe site as part of a tourism experience - you can not get rid of the feeling of voyeurism, but I must reckon it was really, really awesome, and well organized. Lots of people onsite, apparently a series about Chernobyl was aired some times ago, so unfortunately tourists increased en masse in the last weeks.
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So you want to join the XMen at all cost? From one mutant to another: It usually is not worth it. What I got is absolutely useless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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So ... what did you get ? I glow when I close my eyes, but it is useless to lighten up the dark, since ... I have to close my eyes.
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