I've seen this happen again and again. Up and coming rock bands, small companies just trying move up the ladder, NGO trying to get their own space for communication... Some of them try to do all by themselves. Some others look for professional services.
If having your own website was like building a house, it would be like this:
- You get the plot => you get a hosting plan
- You build the house => you build the website and store it in a hosting company's computer
- You get a snail address => you get a domain
Let's focus on point 3. The point 3 is saying the world where do you live. For that reason, domain control is so important. Seriously, do you want to give others the power to say to the world where do you live?
No, you do NOT want.
You could ask: is it really so dangerous? Consider these "bad news" scenarios.
- Your provider raises prices or gives you a bad service, so you plan to move your website anywhere else. Once you move it, you have to tell the world you've moved, but you can't. You have to beg your old and bad provider to do it for you. They end doing it whenever they woant, not when YOU want. They choose a labour day in office hours, so lots of visitors and emails get lost and you never notice it.
- You are in a successful rock band that is offered a record deal. The label wants control over your domain to build a "really really cool website for the band". Latest news, they don't need control on the domain to do that. But you give them the control of the domain anyway, and now they control your Internet shop window. Is the record label screwing you up? OK, you break the deal and go to another label... ooops!... your domain, and your name on the Internet now belongs to the first record label. What now?
So, my two cents: You don't need to get the hosting plan yourself. You don't need to build the site yourself, but get the domain name yourself or let this task to someone you totally, absolutely trust.
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