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.

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.“

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.“

Well, hostmonster hosting are one good budget web hosting. You can signup hostmonster at discount price $3.95/mo, a very affordable pricing for cpanel web hosting. And its come with free domain name and free domain privacy too. You can one free domain name by signup with hostmonster hosting, you can choose your new domain name when ordering hostmonster web hosting plan. Beside hostmonster, bluehost hosting $3.95/mo and fastdomain hosting $3.95/mo also offering free domain name with domain privacy protection too!

Hostmonster hosting is now hosting over 600,000 domain/website, and growing. Previously, hostmonster have 475,000 domain hosted. Bluehost with 825,000 domain hosted. Hostmonster hosting is gaining more customer confident!

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Note that domain privacy is given free at hostmonster hosting, and hostmonster domain pricing is $10 per year. Single free domain name on your new hostmonster account. You can add more domain and buy more domain from hostmonster. If you buying domain name from third party domain registrar like godaddy or namecheap, then you can login to their domain control panel, and change the domain name server field to point to hostmonster DNS name server as following:

• Hostmonster primary domain nameserver: NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM – 74.220.195.131
• Hostmonster primary domain nameserver: NS2.HOSTMONSTER.COM – 69.89.16.8

For this hostmonsterreview.org website, the domain was previously registered with third party registrar, and later domain transfer to hostmonster hosting. Its a very simple process. And the domain privacy is added as a free feature. And if you do a WHOIS check on www.hostmonsterreview.org, here is what you get:

Domain ID:D141531800-LROR
Domain Name:HOSTMONSTERREVIEW.ORG
Created On:14-Mar-2007 18:15:08 UTC
Last Updated On:23-Oct-2007 00:21:23 UTC
Expiration Date:14-Mar-2009 18:15:08 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:FastDomain Inc. (R1455-LROR)
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:FAST-12785297
Registrant Name:HostMonster.Com INC
…
Name Server:NS1.HOSTMONSTER.COM
Name Server:NS2.HOSTMONSTER.COM

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When we look through hosting plan package, it will be very attractive. Offering features like unlimited domain hosting, unlimited subdomain, unlimited parked domain etc. And some hosting even offering unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth. But our discussion this time will focus on the unlimited domain and its current fact.

After you sign up to a unlimited domain hosting, and when you login to cpanel, you will find out that the statistic on the left hand side will shows 999 addon domains. Plus your primary domain, you are given 1000 domains to be exact.

Its in fact not unlimited, but is limited to 1000 domain name. And each time you adding a new domain name, you will have total less one… 998, 997, 996 and so on. The term unlimited is not so true, and there is limits to this. The same 1000 limit caps apply to unlimited subdomain and unlimited parked domain as well.

Since you can host 1000 domain/website in single shared hosting account, but should you do it? Definitely not adviced to. If you are hosted more than 20-30 websites, your sites are start to slowing down, and might already use up lots of server resource. Soon later you will hit the usage limits and receive warning from the hosting provider.

For static page with no database at the backend, certainly you can have lots of sites running. But for website like wordpress blog, its adviced to keep them below 10 websites per shared hosting account. And not to link them together, search engine like google don’t link links within same IP address.

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“Registrant Name:HostMonster.Com INC
Registrant Organization:HostMonster.Com, POWERFUL WEB HOSTING – 50GB Disc -
999GB Transfer
Registrant Street1:HOST UNLIMITED DOMAINS *FREE*
Registrant Street2:1548 N Technology Way
Registrant Street3:Suite #D13
Registrant City:Orem
Registrant State/Province:Utah
Registrant Postal Code:84097
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.8014948462
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+1.8017651992”

You see that instead of my personal information being display, its displaying the hostmonster registrar instead. This is called the domain privacy. And when you register new domain with host monster or transfer domain over to host monster, you can choose to enable the domain privacy. Hostmonster domain privacy is a free service!

How to transfer existing domain to hostmonster? Quit simple, what you need to do is login to host monster cpanel, and go to domain manager. At here, you will view all the domain list that are currently ‘hosted’ at hostmonster. If its not at hostmonster, you need to change the nameserver to point to hostmonster dns. To transfer domain, clickon the transfer button next to the domain name. You will need to login to existing domain registrar and unlock the domain, and get the registrar authentication/auth code. Once you got the auth code, enter into the textbox and click on the email verification code to email. Your domain transfer will begins and should be completed in next 7 days. Simple as that!

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Once domain privacy is activated, public user can’t see your contact information and who the domain belong to and registered under which email address. Thus, your privacy is protected. Your domain registrar information will be display instead.

This is what wikipedia said about domain privacy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy

“Domain privacy is offered by several registrars such as Go Daddy, Network Solutions, eNom and so forth. A user buys privacy from the company, who in turn replaces the user’s info in the whois with the info of a proxy service such as Domains by Proxy or Whois Privacy Protection Service.”

*Note Hostmonster free domain privacy offers end, no longer valid from 2011 and onward! Hostmonster Domain privacy now cost $9.95/year

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Domain parking is domain pointers allow you to “point” or “park” additional domain names to your existing hosting account. This will allow users to also reach your website when entering the “parked” or “pointed” domain into their browsers. Meaning giving your website an alternative name. Few domain names, pointed to the same website.

Here is what wikipedia said about parked domains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_parking

“Domain Parking is an advertising practice used primarily by domain name registrars and internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic visiting an under-developed domain name. The domain name will usually resolve to a page containing relevant advertising listings and links. These links will be targeted to the predicted interests of the visitor and may change dynamically based on the results that visitors click on. Usually the domain owner is paid based on how many links have been visited (e.g. pay per click) and on how beneficial those visits have been. The keywords for any given domain name provide clues as to the intent of the visitor before arriving.”

You can easily access the parked domain feature from the hostmonster cpanel evolution main page. And you are allow to create as many parked domain name as you need it. Here is the account information at hostmonster account shows:

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