How -To Buy a Domain and Hosting For Newbies

There are literally thousands of places you can buy your domain from online as mentioned in the previous lesson.

There are some big brand names like Namecheap and Godaddy that we'll take a look at.

We discuss how to find a reputable domain registrar and where to get discounts from namecheap at

where you can find them and how to choose them in this lesson and by the end of lesson you'll be able to buy your own domain names whenever you need one quickly and easily.

By the end of this lesson you will able to:

Understand the many uses of TLDs and extensions. How to pick a 'top level domain' that represents your brand plus which new extensions can be beneficial and which can damage your brand and you need to stay away from.

• Domain Name - Website Name
• TLD - Top Level Domain
• Extensions - .fyi , .club, .guru, .ninja etc

The link to the Country TDL page at wikipedia is attached in resources.

Doing a little research on your host is best practice, look to see if your hosting provider ticks your required boxes.

• I always start with 24/7 chat
• Do that have access via a cpanel
• Have they got one click install for popular scripts such as wordpress
• Will I have enough space available, especially If I plan to stream videos a lot.
• Price point fits my pocket and is competitive

After this short tutorial you'll know
3 good reasons why it's a good idea to keep the roles of domain registrars and domain hosts separate.

It's no fun having your website held to ransom. Which can happen if you have domain name and hosting on a 'buy one get the other free' deal!

Take a look at the small print.. OR better still contact them via chat to find out exactly what (if anything) you will be tied to.

Here is where we go through:

Getting a new domain name registered

Once we've found a suitable domain name to buy it's only going to take a minute of so to register that domain to our account. It's a simple but essential step.

• Signing up to Namecheap Domain Registrar
• Integrate Namecheap with our paypal account
• Know where to find your nameservers and how to change them

As with the rest of the video's Tony walks you through step by step through the processes mentioned above.

I pay for the services with paypal, though you can use a credit or debit card.

Here is where we go through:

Buying a new hosting account with Bluehost and Namecheap.

Once we've found a suitable domain name to buy it's time to get a hosting account to connect it t.o.
We also know now that's it's not such a great idea to have hosting and domain name at the same place. So here's another simple but essential step.

• Signing up to a new host provider
• Use the nameservers information to point your domain ay you host account.

Tony walks you through step by step through the processes mentioned above.

Again I use paypal, though you can use a credit or debit card.

Connecting DNS To Hosting also know as Changing Nameservers

We go back to where we purchased our domain name, in our case namecheap
Trere we change our nameservers to a "custom setup' .. The usual configuration is

ns1.hostinname.com
ns2.hostinname.com

Some domain names have more than 2 nameservers some may have 3 or 4 like:

ns1.hostinname.com
ns2.hostinname.com
ns3.hostinname.com
ns4hostinname.com

Once we have changed our name servers to a custom set your website files will be 'served up' from your new domain.. in our case www.setupwp.uk will become active as a live web address that can be found on the internet.

Well done - you've completed registering a domain name and getting a hosting account.

You're at the start of a very exciting journey. With what you have now you can build a website the foundations of a great website.

There's no better option to start with if you're new, which I'm assuming you probably are... than wordpress.
So I think it's only fair I show you that you can install wordpress in the next 5 minutes following along over my shoulder.