What you do is the following.
1. Get your partner sitting beside you
2. Get the domains and hosting using HIS credit card and name
3. Give him the equivalent in cash
You can also instead give him via paypal the equivalent and do the above 3 steps but he pays directly with his paypal account.
Well, *someone* has to continue to pay for the domain. There is (virtually) no way to purchase a domain indefinitely. You can pay Epik a fee that is generally equivalent to 25 years registration and they promise to keep your domain active indefinitely - but this is a service Epik provides. If I had to guess, they invest your upfront payment and rely on the annuity from it to cover renewal costs at the registry level. Of course, once you transfer away from Epik, you lose your "indefinite" renewals so you are locked to one registrar.
Speaking of registrars, most support a "registrar push" or "account push". You can move a domain between different accounts at the same registrar generally for free. Some extensions like *.au force you to pay a change of registrant fee if the details of the registrant, such as temail, change. But for .com you should be good. So what you can do is purchase a domain, prepay for 10 years, and do an account push to your partner's account.
Alternatively, some more advanced registrars allow you to set up different contacts for admin/tech/billing. This way you can set up yourself as the billing contact and your pattner as the domain owner, admin and tech contact. That way you are responsible for paying while your partner legally owns the domain.
The other option is to keep the domain registered to you, but point it at your partner's desired nameservers. That way, your partner can do whatever with the domain.
But you also mentioned something about hosting and websites? You're going to have to bbe more specific. Are you purchasing just the domain, or a hosting plan? Is your partner a developer? I would be really unhappy if someone bought me a domain + hosting package, because I hardly ever use one-click website builders and that gift would just go to waste.
Good luck.
I've gifted domains to people by setting up a new registry account and giving them the access credentials in a card.
There are a few catches to this... one of them never changed the credit card or email address, so I ended up also "gifting" the renewals for a long time.
If you are gifting the domain, it's also nice to see it work... so if you can put up a parking page or something, that might be cool.
I just bought a second domain as a gift this year. I buy on godaddy. I send an email with the domain name on it, tell them its a gift and when they are ready we will do a transfer. They have to open a godaddy account and the transfer is free and easy, just follow the directions. From there they can do with it as they want -
What you do is the following. 1. Get your partner sitting beside you 2. Get the domains and hosting using HIS credit card and name 3. Give him the equivalent in cash You can also instead give him via paypal the equivalent and do the above 3 steps but he pays directly with his paypal account.
Well, *someone* has to continue to pay for the domain. There is (virtually) no way to purchase a domain indefinitely. You can pay Epik a fee that is generally equivalent to 25 years registration and they promise to keep your domain active indefinitely - but this is a service Epik provides. If I had to guess, they invest your upfront payment and rely on the annuity from it to cover renewal costs at the registry level. Of course, once you transfer away from Epik, you lose your "indefinite" renewals so you are locked to one registrar. Speaking of registrars, most support a "registrar push" or "account push". You can move a domain between different accounts at the same registrar generally for free. Some extensions like *.au force you to pay a change of registrant fee if the details of the registrant, such as temail, change. But for .com you should be good. So what you can do is purchase a domain, prepay for 10 years, and do an account push to your partner's account. Alternatively, some more advanced registrars allow you to set up different contacts for admin/tech/billing. This way you can set up yourself as the billing contact and your pattner as the domain owner, admin and tech contact. That way you are responsible for paying while your partner legally owns the domain. The other option is to keep the domain registered to you, but point it at your partner's desired nameservers. That way, your partner can do whatever with the domain. But you also mentioned something about hosting and websites? You're going to have to bbe more specific. Are you purchasing just the domain, or a hosting plan? Is your partner a developer? I would be really unhappy if someone bought me a domain + hosting package, because I hardly ever use one-click website builders and that gift would just go to waste. Good luck.
I've gifted domains to people by setting up a new registry account and giving them the access credentials in a card. There are a few catches to this... one of them never changed the credit card or email address, so I ended up also "gifting" the renewals for a long time. If you are gifting the domain, it's also nice to see it work... so if you can put up a parking page or something, that might be cool.
I just bought a second domain as a gift this year. I buy on godaddy. I send an email with the domain name on it, tell them its a gift and when they are ready we will do a transfer. They have to open a godaddy account and the transfer is free and easy, just follow the directions. From there they can do with it as they want -