Domains are purchased on an annual basis. When you buy a domain, it is only yours to own for a year. If you don’t renew a domain, it will become publicly available for anyone on the planet to snatch up. Enabling the auto-renew feature with us will help to prevent this from happening.
At HOSTAFRICA, we don’t offer DNS management as a separate service for domains registered with another company. If you’d like to buy domains without hosting and manage your own DNS records, make sure to purchase your domains with us.
If you bought a new domain with us with no hosting plan, our system registers the domain and sends you a registration confirmation email. By default, your new domain will point to our name servers. If you specify custom name servers that have no records, your domain will then be placed in a ‘Hold’ state, which means it’s unusable until it’s pointed to name servers.
If you’re unhappy with your first-choice hosting/domain provider, transferring your domain is a relatively simply process. However, it should be noted that a domain cannot be transferred if it is within its first month of registration. Contact our helpful support for expert guidance.