Following on from my debacle with fasthosts, I'm now faced with a new situation I'm not sure how best to resolve.

I have a .co.uk domain name registered with nominet and that won't lapse for another year or so. It was initially registered with 1and1 but I moved it to fasthosts when I created my hosting package with them last week.

Now that I want to cancel my fasthosts account, I don't know what to do with the domain name.

I don't actually need it right now so there's no real need AFAICS to have the DNS pointing to a valid server.

However, if I cancel my fasthosts account, will I lose access to my domain? Will it be "locked" to their DNS servers? Do I have to move it somewhere else even though I'm not using it?

I could reassign it to 1and1 although they're going to charge me. Not much, and I'm happy to do it, but only if it's worth it of if I somehow lose control if I leave it with fasthosts with whom I'll no longer have a hosting service.

Thoughts?

Thanks

It depends on how big your fall out was. You can cancel the hosting but still leave the management there. Otherwise you'd be best off transferring it elsewhere.

But if I cancel the hosting, will I then be able to log into the management side if/when I move it (accessing and changing the IPS tag) ?

I'll give them a call tomorrow and find out.

My fallout hasn't been big, I only created my account end of last week. I posted about it in the other thread.