{"id":1427,"date":"2009-08-17T18:15:38","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2026-04-30T15:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T13:41:41","slug":"registers-my-domain-legal-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/domains\/registers-my-domain-legal-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"If xneelo registers my domain, who will the legal domain owner be?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You will be the Domain Name Holder<\/strong>. \u00a0Technically, domains are never owned but are leased from a registry on an annual basis, giving the registrant legal right to the use of the domain.<\/p>\n

We will be listed as the technical<\/strong> and billing<\/strong> contact, as we manage the name servers and domain renewal on your behalf. You will be listed as both the registrant<\/strong>\u00a0and administrative contact<\/strong> (unless specified otherwise by yourself), therefore having the full legal right to the use\u00a0<\/b>of your domain name.<\/p>\n

Please note that organisations listed in the “Organisation” field will be considered the legal domain owner.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"You will be the Domain Name Holder<\/strong>. \u00a0Technically, domains are never owned but are leased from a registry on an annual basis, giving the registrant legal right to the use of the domain.\r\n\r\nWe will be listed as the technical<\/strong> and billing<\/strong> contact, as we manage the name servers and domain renewal on your behalf. You will be listed as both the registrant<\/strong>\u00a0and administrative contact<\/strong> (unless specified otherwise by yourself), therefore having the full legal right to the use\u00a0<\/b>of your domain name.\r\n\r\nPlease note that organisations listed in the \"Organisation\" field will be considered the legal domain owner."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technically domains are never owned but are leased from a\u00a0registry on an annual basis, giving the registrant legal right to the use of the domain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[155,159],"tags":[16874,255,319],"topics":[10381,10389],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domains","category-faq-domains","tag-register-domain","tag-domain","tag-domain-registration","topics-domain-faq","topics-getting-started-domains"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":155,"name":"Domains","slug":"domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":155,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","parent":0,"count":74,"filter":"raw","term_order":"61","cat_ID":155,"category_count":74,"category_description":"Registering and Transferring Domains ","cat_name":"Domains","category_nicename":"domains","category_parent":0},{"term_id":159,"name":"FAQ about domains","slug":"faq-domains","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":159,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Frequently asked questions and answers about Domains","parent":155,"count":17,"filter":"raw","term_order":"67","cat_ID":159,"category_count":17,"category_description":"Frequently asked questions and answers about Domains","cat_name":"FAQ about domains","category_nicename":"faq-domains","category_parent":155}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":16874,"name":"register domain","slug":"register-domain","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16874,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":12,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2491"},{"term_id":255,"name":"domain","slug":"domain","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":255,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw","term_order":"2999"},{"term_id":319,"name":"domain registration","slug":"domain-registration","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":319,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3001"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"marketing","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/marketing\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a6ea315e112423b2b955cb020fbce2b0835956c6ad85ff0f13f1db298977eaaa?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}