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illusivedaze
July 21st, 2002, 12:16
The last time i registered a domain name i was able to do it for a year without paying until the people i registered finally realized i wasnt gunna pay. Anyways my question is this: I do not fully understand how the pop3 accounts, subdomains, etc work with registering a domain name & then paying for a host. Lets say i registered a domain name with a service that did not offer free e-mail or pop 3 accounts, & the same with subdomains. Then i decide to pay for a host that does offer pop 3 accounts, subdomains, etc. Would that mean that my domain would then have those features after i had setup my hosting account?

thewitt
July 21st, 2002, 14:49
Domain registration and hosting services are two different things. You can register a domain with any registrar and host any serivices (email, web, ftp, dns) at a hosting company in a totally unrelated manner.

Some domain registrars also offer hosting services including hosting email forwarding and dns servers, but it's not a requirement of registration.

Some hosting companies also offer domain registration, though it's not a requirement to offer hosting.

-t