Thread: Is there any advantage to transferring domains

I have a domain that is hosted elsewhere. Is there an advantage to going ahead and transferring it to Vodahost versus just redirecting? I would rather have it hosted on vodahost.

Pointing the name servers to Voda will work just the same. No real difference.

That's what I needed. I tried to transfer it, and even though it's unlocked, and I'm the administrator, technical person, etc., I never got an email from Voda Host to confirm. When I sent a support ticket, they responded quickly that I should have received one and if I didn't to cancel and start again. So before I did that, I thought I would check. Thanks Beth!

The only difference is that you will continue to renew your domain with your old registrar, and ofcourse you will be billed by him for these renewals. If you could transfer, ALL your invoices would be gathered together under your VH Billing Services account.

No big deal really

Originally Posted by navaldesign

The only difference is that you will continue to renew your domain with your old registrar, and ofcourse you will be billed by him for these renewals. If you could transfer, ALL your invoices would be gathered together under your VH Billing Services account.

No big deal really

Thanks Naval: Well I will transfer it, it is just a matter of when. Since Voda hosts my other domains, my main one is just hanging out there with someone else and I would rather have it here. I'll probably try again soon. thanks

Cindy,
I just noticed something that will hurt you a lot - wanted to send you an email - and could not find ANY contact info on your site. If I was interested in booking, etc - I wouldn't do it from someone with no easy to find contact info including complete address and phone number. I do recommend you add an email also.

Originally Posted by Bethers

Cindy,
I just noticed something that will hurt you a lot - wanted to send you an email - and could not find ANY contact info on your site. If I was interested in booking, etc - I wouldn't do it from someone with no easy to find contact info including complete address and phone number. I do recommend you add an email also.

Hi Beth and Thank you for the suggestion. I have pondered this one myself. You are right, in that you can find my contact info in one of the pages on the business opportunity side, but not the travel booking side. I hesitate putting it on a page itself, as the last time I did that with a website, I ended up over a period of time, getting 100's of spam mail a day. So I need to take so time and find Davids or Andys contact form and do it in such a way that I don't get all that spam again. Is there something you would recommend?

I recommend using ABVFP. It will alow you to process any form, aborting bot submission. Your email doesn't appear at all, so they cannot list it in a spam database. Also i would recommend having not your email, but a "Contact Us" link, which will open the visitor's email, with your email address encrypted, for the same reason. And a tel. number is a must.

Thank you Naval! Oh my gosh...that looks complicated for me...but I'll have to close my door and have uninterrupted time when I start that. But that is exactly what I need and I do need to get that done soon. So....I may be getting back in touch with you on that thread when I start. But you always give such good directions...we'll see how well I learn. lol Thanks again.

You are very welcome. Just build your form, as you want it, and leave the script to me. As for the encrypted email, just visit the link above, type in the text you want to appear in your page, fill in your email address, and the code will be generated. Copy it and paste it in a HTML box in your page, and you're done.

Naval: Ok, that wasn't so bad...your directions were clear enough for a novice like me. I think I've done it. It all seems to test out ok on my end. Can you go have a look and try the form for me? The only problem I see is in the email responders, there is a <BR> appearing in both the receipent's email and mine. How would I eliminate that?

Thank you so much...I really needed this. And thank you Beth for pointing it out, so that I made it a priority!

I believe in the forms, but also believe in having the email address where people don't have to use the form, nor do they have to have it open a program - why? Because the computers all come configured to open outlook or outlook express and most people never figure out how to change that and then can't use it. If you want to use the web to make money, you have to accept some of the consequences such as spam mail. The easier and more ways you give people to contact you - the more sales you have the potential to make.

And I sent you a message. You can let me know if you got it.

Hi Beth: Yes, I did what naval said and also put an encrypted email link on my contact us page right below my phone number. Do you see it? I would like to change the color, but I haven't figured that one out yet.

I missed the email us - I don't like to use either that or the form - but just sent you a message with the form.

So Beth, if you don't use encrypted email, may I ask...do you get a lot of spam? Or was it just my mis-fortune the last time I had a website and just typed my email address on the web page? I take it then, it doesn't bother you to sort through all the spam?

Funny, most of my spam doesn't come through having my email address on my site - as that's not the account that seems to generate the spam - most of my spam comes simply to my default - and they address it to webmaster@ and my site name. My email filters are really good - and I just glance through the junk to make sure that a good email didn't go there in error (which has happened on occasion).

To me, if I want to sell to people, I have to give them every opportunity to purchase. I do make a few exceptions (like I know have 2 stores no longer set at 800 wide - but that has been a test - and is working) but, for the most part, I try to be as customer friendly as possible.

You aren't in there for the same purpose as me, so you can use more personal considerations, and can decide to not put emails in - but if you allow all emails to your domain name to default to you - you'll still end up with the spam.

Thanks Beth!

Naval: I got the email verification on the form. I see a few typos I need to take care of but before I work on it some more, how do I get the <BR> out of the ndadmin.php? Thanks so much....again...

The "Email us" opens up directly Outlook express, with the real email address filled in. It's only encrypted to the "eyes" of a bot.

And the form looks very good!. Please note that you can build your own form, it is not necessary that you use the example form that came with the zip. Also, you would like to take off your form my credentials as well as the metatgas i had already there.

I also beleive that the "email Us" link should be of a brighter color, as it disappears on the blue Background.

Well done!

The <BR> is a bug on my side, i need to work it out. For the moment, make sure to have your mail header and footer (as well as those of the autoresponder) all in one line. Till i fix it, in the next ABVFP version.

Thank you. Since I used your contact form (which works for me right now), I didn't know if I should keep your copyright on. So I will delete that. I will fix the email by putting a white background behind it. When I try to change the hyperlink styles, they don't seem to want to change color for me.

When I first look at the pdf of instructions...I was intimidated, but as I followed through, it really didn't take long and you did an excellent job explaining.

Thankyou Cindy. This is encouraging me, as it seems it is not so difficult when you follow the instructions step by step. I do admit that it is a bit more complicated than other scripts, because of the complexity of it's features. On the other hand, this script will deal with almost all the known types of forms.

I hope to be able to make the second version more user friendly. But even so, once it is installed, all that it requires from the user is to fill in some info and, voil&#224;, the script is autoconfigured. The best thing about it, is that it doesn't require any hand coding at all.