Hi all -
I am a relatively new person in the web development arena - I took a few classes and set up a handful of basic websites - so I know enough to be dangerous but far from a pro.
My situation is this - I am putting together a website for a family members business. The domain name he wanted was taken so we settled on an alternative. So I built out the site, put it up, and life was good. I host this site through a company called netfirms in case that matters, using a dynamic IP. Its just a simple front end website, so I figured dynamic was sufficient. Not really even clear on why/when static would be required honestly.
Anyway, as it turns out, my brothers preferred domain name we thought was taken, was actually bought by our family friend who was originally going to build the site. The friend doesnt want it obviously, and is willing to give it to us. However he asked me for my static IP, and I think was just going to point the URL to our existing URL.
I don't really want to buy a static IP as I dont think its ness (??) and I don't want to change the URL we settled on as I am getting good search ranking - I just want to transfer the URL to my brothers name and netfirms, and then point it to his existing URL.
Upon reading, its seems like I should be able to accomplish this by signing up for an account wherever our friend hosts the URL, do an ownership transfer there, and then once my brother owns it, we should then be able to move it over to netfirms, point it to the existing (second choice) URL, and never have to get a static IP.
Is this right? For some reason the friend keeps insisting I get a static IP.
Just looking for someone to shed a little light on this - based on what I read the above should work but I want to make sure I am not missing something?
Thanks in advance!
I am a relatively new person in the web development arena - I took a few classes and set up a handful of basic websites - so I know enough to be dangerous but far from a pro.
My situation is this - I am putting together a website for a family members business. The domain name he wanted was taken so we settled on an alternative. So I built out the site, put it up, and life was good. I host this site through a company called netfirms in case that matters, using a dynamic IP. Its just a simple front end website, so I figured dynamic was sufficient. Not really even clear on why/when static would be required honestly.
Anyway, as it turns out, my brothers preferred domain name we thought was taken, was actually bought by our family friend who was originally going to build the site. The friend doesnt want it obviously, and is willing to give it to us. However he asked me for my static IP, and I think was just going to point the URL to our existing URL.
I don't really want to buy a static IP as I dont think its ness (??) and I don't want to change the URL we settled on as I am getting good search ranking - I just want to transfer the URL to my brothers name and netfirms, and then point it to his existing URL.
Upon reading, its seems like I should be able to accomplish this by signing up for an account wherever our friend hosts the URL, do an ownership transfer there, and then once my brother owns it, we should then be able to move it over to netfirms, point it to the existing (second choice) URL, and never have to get a static IP.
Is this right? For some reason the friend keeps insisting I get a static IP.
Just looking for someone to shed a little light on this - based on what I read the above should work but I want to make sure I am not missing something?
Thanks in advance!