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Opinion on domain name appreciated

by Fredbou
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I'm about to start a free Webhosting service and I'm unsure if I should include the word "free" in the domain name as it will also be the white label nameservers names.

The domain name with "free" in it would be good for marketing, but serious businesses might not like "free" in the nameservers because it would appear on their customers' Whois and might put them off.

How to market free Webhosting without having "free" in the domain name is the challenge.!

Any thoughts on this?
#appreciated #domain #opinion
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    Use a different domain for the website and the name servers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
      Originally Posted by Dan Grossman View Post

      Why don't you use a different domain for the website and the nameservers?
      Is that possible?
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  • Profile picture of the author rakeshmediaweb01
    Originally Posted by Fredbou View Post

    I'm about to start a free Webhosting service and I'm unsure if I should include the word "free" in the domain name as it will also be the white label nameservers names.

    The domain name with "free" in it would be good for marketing, but serious businesses might not like "free" in the nameservers because it would appear on their customers' Whois and might put them off.

    How to market free Webhosting without having "free" in the domain name is the challenge.!

    Any thoughts on this?

    You can't offer domain names in FREE as per ICANN rules. But you can provide free Hosting/web space to clients.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
      Originally Posted by rakeshmediaweb01 View Post

      You can't offer domain names in FREE as per ICANN rules. But you can provide free Hosting/web space to clients.
      He never said he intended to offer free domain names.

      Originally Posted by Fredbou

      Is that possible?
      Of course. Why wouldn't it be?

      Why would your nameservers have to match your domain, while your clients' nameservers don't match their domains? Think about it
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      • Profile picture of the author Fredbou
        Originally Posted by Dan Grossman View Post

        Why would your nameservers have to match your domain, while your clients' nameservers don't match their domains? Think about it
        My clients would have to point their domain names to my nameservers, so no they wouldn't be the same, but thought that if I was offering hosting, then my hosting nameservers would need to be the same as my domain name.
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        • Profile picture of the author Dan Grossman
          Originally Posted by Fredbou View Post

          My clients would have to point their domain names to my nameservers, so no they wouldn't be the same, but thought that if I was offering hosting, then my hosting nameservers would need to be the same as my domain name.
          HTTP and DNS are not in any way tied together. Two different protocols, invented in different decades -- there were name servers before the web existed. Two different daemons you'll be running on two different ports, over two different network protocols, possibly on two different servers. Nothing about your web hosting service has anything to do with your DNS hosting service. You can register nameservers with any registrar using any domain you own. These nameservers can point to any IP address where you actually run a DNS daemon.

          Case in point: GoDaddy offers web hosting and DNS hosting. Their name servers are not subdomains of godaddy.com. They're subdomains of secureserver.com, and you can't buy web hosting there either.

          It is no different for you or your clients. You both will point your domains at a name server. That name server need not match up with anything else. There's no DNS goblin living in the intertubes that will shut down your domain because you're a hosting company and your nameservers don't match your domain, but will let your clients use nameservers that don't match their domains.
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