.HOSTING Domain Extension

Why choose a .HOSTING domain?

The “-ing” ending does all the work: it turns a thing into an activity. It is exactly the relation that separates .fish from .fishing, or cook from cooking. Here, .host names the machine; .hosting names what is done with it, month after month. And hosting is not a product delivered once: it is a service that has to hold while everybody sleeps. The word says that better than any overview page.

The ongoing service

Monthly, annual, renewal, migration included or not. Customers buy continuity, not a one-off installation.

The agreement

Service commitments, backups, liability if something is lost. What you guarantee and what you do not: state both.

Support

Hours, channels, first response time, out-of-hours emergencies. In this trade it is the real deciding factor, well ahead of price.

Migration

Taking over an existing site, expected downtime, moving the mailboxes. Fear of losing something holds more customers back than a high price does.

Backups

Frequency, retention, where they are kept, how a restore works. A backup nobody has ever tested is not a backup.

What it actually changes

• It names the activity, not the machine. The same relation as .fish to .fishing: one is a thing, the other is what you do with it.
• It announces a lasting relationship. Hosting renews every month: the word carries that continuity.
• No registration restrictions. No hosting status or certification to demonstrate to the registrar.
• It works as an email address too. migration@harding.hosting keeps site transfers apart from day-to-day support.