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Chances are you may be getting help creating your website. There's nothing wrong with paying for assistance to make sure your website is professional and does what you need. Be Careful. Put Your Website Domain In Your Own Name. If your designer or coder buys your domain name and hosting and will invoice you for it, insist that the domain and web hosting account is in your name, not there's. If you ever get in a dispute, or even decide to use someone else in the future, that friendly web designer or coder may hold you hostage. How? If the domain name is in your web designer or coder's name, legally they own the domain - not you. That's right, you wouldn't have rights to the domain name, and your web designer or coder may charge you to give you the rights to your web address. Protect yourself. Establish your own web hosting account. Also, it's not a good idea to host the domain and website on a shared server your web designer or coder controls. Don't use the web hosting service from your web designer or coder - it gives them too much control over your website. And if there's a future dispute, they may make it a huge hassle to access or move your website. Establish your own web hosting account with a large, reputable web host (like the ones reviewed at Website Hosting Reviews) the web designer or coder is feels comfortable using. Set up the administrative privileges for the web host in your name.
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