Help! Questions re domain and email registration with 123.reg

[Favoured07]

[FONT=&quot]OK, I have another question about domain and email registration. Forgive me if these questions seem really basic but all of this tecky stuff is completely new (and foreign) to me.

If I purchase my domain and email from 123.reg, can I definitely use them if I host my website with another company? I want to be absolutely sure that I don't loose my domain name and I don't want to be stuck with hosting my site through 123.reg. From what I have read they seem to be crap at hosting.

Also, I am assuming I can use the email address without having a website???

Any advice on all of this stuff is greatly appreciated.
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[Dwebs-Ltd]

Yes if you register through 123-reg you can host with another provider you have to change the name servers in the 123-reg control panel, super simple to do.

If email is enabled for the domain email will work.

 

[Deleted member 27344]

You can do what you want but I would seriously advice no to use 123reg.
Support is useless and you will need it.

If you have to, use someone else - daily.co.uk possibly.

 

[Favoured07]

Thanks for your responses. Do I need support just to purchase the domain and email? I thought the support was for those who were hosting websites.

 

[Dwebs-Ltd]

Sometimes you may need 123-reg to fix things i.e. name servers might not update correctly, billing issues etc.

We did use them for .uk registrations a while back but it got to the point where every single new domain didn't register properly backend system problems their end and support was taking an average of 3 weeks to respond to tickets. So we got our own nominet tag far easier