Domains and SubDomains FAQ

All domains registered with IX Web Hosting, as paid or free, belongs to the customer. You can fully manage your domain or transfer your domains registration away at anytime.

When you register a new domain, you give out your name, address, phone, and email, right? What you may not realize is that this information is PUBLIC. It's stored in what's called the WHOIS database, which is available to (and easily searchable by) marketing firms, spammers, and other online fraudsters; anywhere, at any time. But you can fight back, and hide this information. Domain WHOIS privacy protection,changes your public contact information in the following ways:

• Replaces your physical address with PRIVATE
• Changes your phone numbers to PRIVATE.
• Substitutes your email address with a unique email address that helps block spammers but still lets real people with an interest in your domain get through.

To enable domain WHOIS privacy protection, check out these instructions in our hosting manual.

http://www.ixwebhosting.com/hosting-manual/domain-names#q6

You can transfer domain registrations to your account at any time. To transfer a domain, follow the instructions provided in our hosting manual here:

http://www.ixwebhosting.com/hosting-manual/domain-names#q1b

The difference between a sub domain and a domain name can be explained easily.

While a domain name is a full website address, totally independent of other domain names, a sub domain depends on a domain name. If for example "yourdomain.com" is your domain name, then http://yourdomain.com and http://www.yourdomain.com would be your domain name's address. A sub domain name would be a name *under* your domain name, something like "subdomain.yourdomain.com". Its address would then be: http://subdomain.yourdomain.com and http://www.subdomain.yourdomain.com. It can say anything you want instead of "sub domain" and the nice thing is that unlike a full domain name, a sub domain does not need to be registered - we will register it for you.

Yes, you will be able to have your own sub domain, such as something.yourdomainname.com. A sub domain is basically a subdirectory or folder created inside your FTP area which is a fully operating Web site. The main benefit of a sub domain is that it doesn't require domain name registration and fees that are associated with a full domain name.

Yes! Your hosting plan comes with full set of static dedicated IP addresses as per the plan's feature list.

All of our plans include unlimited domains and sub-domains. This means that you will never have to worry about how many domains you can host with us.

We do not offer this feature at the time, but you can change your domain contact information as you like.

A transfer authorization code is required when transferring any .com/.net, .org, .info, .biz, .us, .name and .cn domain name from one registrar to another. You can obtain Transfer Authorization code for your domain name registered with IX Web Hosting anytime.

Yes, of course! We can register any available .com, .org, .net, .biz, .us, or .info using free domain credits that come with all of our hosting accounts. We can also register .tv, .cc, and .ca domains for an additional fee.

It takes 24 to 72 hours for the nameserver changes to take effect. While your domain is in transfer, you can feel free to use your sites dedicated IP address to upload and test features on your website.

Yes we register the most popular domains extensions that are available on the market today:
COM (US Commercial)
NET (US Network)
ORG (Non-profit organization)
INFO (Informational)
BIZ (Business)
US (United States all-purpose)
CC (Wide variety of interpretations - Example)
TV (Television)
WS (Abbreviation of Web Site)
CA (Canada all-purpose)
BZ (Business)

The cost of registering a new domain depends upon the TLD (top level domain) being registered. TLD's are .com, .net, .org, etc. When you register a new domain, you have to select a TLD under which the domain will be registered, such as domain.com, .com being the TLD.

Yes we can host all type of domains; there are no restrictions on that at all.

You will be allowed to use as much bandwidth as allotted by the hosting plan and you can increase your bandwidth limit via the customer control panel by upgrading your account.

Yes, all of our hosting plans allow for multiple domain hosting.

This task can be performed via the customer control panel, if you are an existing customer please refer to our hosting manual for further instructions
http://www.ixwebhosting.com/hosting-manual/domain-names