Domain owner is the king! Don’t let your developer hold your domain for ransom!

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Above diagram shows the basic setup. Your developer is dealing with multiple vendors. The first and most important being Domain Registrar (you decide the DNS vendor here). The second being DNS (you decide hosting and/or email company here). The third being web hosting company and fourth being email service provider. You can get all these services from the same vendor or 4 different vendors. To make things complex, I have used all four different vendors but normally it is three (this is debatable so not getting into that).

Domain Registrar –> DNS (A-record) –> Website hosting company (machine)

–> DNS (MX-record) –> Email hosting company

So anyone who has Domain Registrar a/c access for that domain can change everything else. Let’s assume domain name is fairshare.tech

  1. let’s say your developer is not responding or asking you to pay unreasonable service charges
  2. copy the contents of website to another hosting (means different IP address)
  3. point A-record –> new IP Address
  4. That’s it … fairshare.tech will be up and running again! 
  5. Occasionally, even after updating the A-record, you may find that your website isn’t loading properly. Here is how you can debug this issue: (1) Check DNS settings using (2) You might also read and try if A-record is propagated globally: https://fairshare.tech/2021/09/28/how-to-ensure-website-availability-from-other-countries/ (3)  This issue could be due to your Windows laptop retaining outdated DNS information in its cache. To address this, initiate the Command Prompt and execute the command ping domainname. If the output displays the old IP address, you should clear the DNS cache by running ipconfig /flushdns. After clearing the cache, attempt the ping command once more. This procedure often resolves the issue. However, if the problem persists, it indicates that the root cause lies elsewhere.

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