If you are with hostmonster hosting, you already found out hostmonster is giving you free domain name for life! What does that mean, free domain name for life? Do you get to keep the domain name even your web hosting account is inactive? To quickly answer your question, as long you are hosting with hostmonster web hosting and keep your hosting account active, you gets the free domain name registration. There is no charges for your domain name renewal, $10 dollars saving every year, and that is the free domain name that you can get for free for life! The domain name is yours and you can choose to transfer it out if you want to!
Your first domain name is free, and you can add more domain name to your hostmonster account. Either use your existing domain name from other registrar, or you can register another domain name from hostmonster, and later add it to your hostmonster hosting account! Hosting multiple websites separately in one HM web hosting account, at no extra charges!
For budget concern, always look for web hosting plan that offers you unlimited domain hosting & free domain name for life. Hostmonster web hosting is one of the web host that offering this feature, same to bluehost & fastdomain hosting.
And more, you get free domain privacy from your hostmonster hosting too, you get the best value from hostmonster!
*Note that the free hostmonster domain privacy is valid until year end of 2010 only, its no longer available after the domain price changes as ICANN announce new domain pricing that cost more than before.
The new hostmonster domain manager tools is great, it extend the capability of the cpanel domain function alot. You can register new domain name via hostmonster, or activate domain privacy for domain registered via them, and you can view the WHOIS information for your domain names either its primary or addon domain.
Adding new domain name into hostmonster hosting account is really simple, you can use the cpanel > addon domain name to do the job. However, there is some changes to the addon domain interface and which allows you to choose adding domain as a ADDON or as a PARKED domain. Its a bit tricky when you choose to remove domain name from hostmonster account too. You got o go to hostmonster domain manager tab under cpanel control panel, from here choose the domain name you want to remove, on the right of the domain column you will see the status “ADDON”, click on the link, yes it is a link. This allow you to unassigned the addon domain name in first step, after doing so only you can proceed with domain removal from hostmonster hosting. Next is the final step, choose the domain name status UNASSIGNED again, and you can now totally remove the addon domain name from your hostmonster web hosting.
Its not hard, but when you doing it first time, it take us a spin to get it done.
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“The domain yourdomainxxxxx.com is currently not assigned and can be removed from your account. This will not delete the domain registration. The domains will no longer show up in your cPanel Hosting domains list.“
Not sure how to edit the DNS zone for A record and CNAME record? Luckily, hostmonster cpanel hosting are offering the simple DNS zone editor and also the Advanced DNS zone editor tool. Not many cpanel hosting plan are with these two DNS tools, we had many other cpanel hosting plan and haven’t seen these yet. You can find these feature at bluehost, hostmonster and fastdomain cpanel hosting.
To edit your domain DNS zone, go to Hostmonster’s cPanel > DNS zone editor.
From here you can choose the domain to edit. You can reset the zone file as well. Add DNS record or Zone file record etc.
Now you can add your A Record or CNAME record at hostmonster web hosting $3.95/mo hosting plan.
“DNS is the component of the Internet which converts human-readable domain names (such as [user's domain]) into computer-readable IP addresses (such as [user's IP]). It does this according to DNS zone files that reside on your server and tie domain names to IP addresses. There are several different types of records in a domain’s zone file. This feature allows you to create and edit A and CNAME records.“
