InMotion Hosting Free Domain Policy Review

Domain is the address of your website. Yahoo.com is a domain and Facebook.com is another. They can represent a website and a brand. For your information, whoever wishes to build a website needs 2 things, a web hosting to store your website files and a domain name as an address to access it. If you have read my InMotionHosting Review, you must have known that you will get a free domain name of your choice when you subscribe to their hosting service. It is free but it comes with 2 conditions.

1. In order for you to entitle with this freebie, you need to subscribe to InMotion hosting for at least 1 year.
2. The freebie is only valid on .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info domain names

While those are fair conditions, you have to understand that if you decide to cancel InMotion Hosting by any reasons, a charge of $12.95 will be imposed on you. Of cause, you own the domain and you have full control on it after the charges.

However, what brings InMotion Hosting a step further than others is their Domain Transfer!

I was talking to InMotion Live Chat the other day on this matter. In their hosting feature pages, there is an item by the name “FREE New Domain or FREE Transfer”. Well, we all understand what Free Domain is, but what a FREE Transfer is? So this is what the Live Chat told me:-

If you already have an existing domain, you can transfer it to us (InMotion Hosting) for free and avoid having to pay renewal costs for as long as you host with us.

InMotion actually pays for your current domain if you switch hosting! Honestly this is the first time I’ve heard of this kind of policy. I can actually avoid paying my current domain fee by hosting with InMotion! As a reference for you, other web hosts will offer free domain but in the case you are transferring an existing domain, the web host will not mention a word anymore on the free domain. You will need to renew it on your own.

Well, does their free domain policy make InMotion a deal? For me, it is definitely a tempting deal! (I even am, still am thinking to switch hosting this website of mine to them because of that)    Update: I have switched to InMotion Hosting already!! Join me at InMotion!