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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on June 30, 2009, 6:13 am
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> I'm helping a lady set up a website for a social organisation. We want the
> domain name registered to her but she hasn't a clue about Domain Name
> Registration so I will have to either do the work for her or hold her hand
> through the process.
>
> That second option doesn't bother me too much for registering the domain
> name - but I don't really want to have to get into teaching her to modify
> the DNS record which will happen at least twice, the first time to put the
> website in a temporary location for development, the second time when it
> goes live. Also, we will probably use Godaddy for registration and I find
> their procedure for setting up email to be overly complex.
>
> Seems to me that I can either:
>
> - do the whole registration myself but give her name and address as the
> owner but that effectively puts the whole process under my control.
>
> - get her to do the registration but give me the password to her Godaddy
> account.
>
> How do web designers generally handle this sort of thing?
>
>
>
Create a new GoDaddy account in her name then give her the password.
BTW - why do you need a separate location for development? I always
build the site on the server where it is going to reside. That way
there are no surprises when it goes live (I also keep a development
machine locally).
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> domain name registered to her but she hasn't a clue about Domain Name
> Registration so I will have to either do the work for her or hold her hand
> through the process.
>
> That second option doesn't bother me too much for registering the domain
> name - but I don't really want to have to get into teaching her to modify
> the DNS record which will happen at least twice, the first time to put the
> website in a temporary location for development, the second time when it
> goes live. Also, we will probably use Godaddy for registration and I find
> their procedure for setting up email to be overly complex.
>
> Seems to me that I can either:
>
> - do the whole registration myself but give her name and address as the
> owner but that effectively puts the whole process under my control.
>
> - get her to do the registration but give me the password to her Godaddy
> account.
>
> How do web designers generally handle this sort of thing?
>
>
>