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Prefer a short, pronounceable name that can survive a change in product. Check spelling ambiguity, trademark risk, renewal terms, and how the whole name sounds aloud.
Register
Use a reputable registrar, enable two-factor authentication and auto-renewal, keep the recovery address current, and make the business the account owner.
Understand
Registration records ownership. DNS routes services. Hosting serves the website. One vendor may provide several, but the responsibilities remain separate.
Connect
Copy only the A, AAAA, CNAME, or TXT records supplied by the host. Preserve MX and email-related records unless the email provider says otherwise.
Verify
Test root, www, HTTPS, redirects, and canonical URLs. Record who owns the domain, DNS, hosting, billing, analytics, and recovery access.
Move
Inventory the DNS zone, prepare the new site, preserve URLs or redirects, switch routing, then verify. Changing hosts rarely requires a registrar transfer.
Avoid
Do not let a contractor personally own the domain, replace the full DNS zone casually, ignore renewals, or assume a domain purchase includes email and hosting.
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