I've been told by my web designer that i cant have ownership of my domain name because it is connected the the host? I thought the domain and host were completely separate?
this isn't entirely true. DEnic for instance (they are in charge of the .DE domain extension for germany) don't offer such a control panel as they do require everything in paper format. an official request with signature so to speak. however, the host and registrar are again two separate entities and you are leasing the domain from the registrar not the host. thus that puts you in the drivers seat of your domains destiny.yes those are completely seperate.
if u have domain name then ultimiatly u must have a domian controlpanel apart from hosting control panel. you can host your domain name any where you want by changing the name servers.
dont forget to ask the domain control panel after you register a domain name. so that u can have complete control on which hosting to choose.
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