Question about my domain name

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This Hostgator thread was started by fedude on 2009-03-06 15:59:39:

I bought an account with Hostgator and took out a domain name through them ($15). When I do a whois, I see that Hostgator owns the domain name instead of me.

I’ve read elsewhere that most people take out a domain name separate from the hosting company, to maintain their ownership of the name.

Can someone explain how to do this? I want to purchase another site from Hostgator, but I want to do it right. I notice that one of the restrictions appears to be that I cannot "transfer" a domain name to Hostgator DNS’s for 60 days.

Just confused…..:gatorbang:

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