{"id":2135,"date":"2020-08-06T00:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T07:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2024-10-03T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T03:57:15","slug":"if-you-code-your-own-website-do-you-still-need-to-purchase-a-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2135\/if-you-code-your-own-website-do-you-still-need-to-purchase-a-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"If you code your own website, do you still need to purchase a domain?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch-1024x678.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch-1024x678.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch-300x199.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch-768x509.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/coding-websites-from-scratch.webp 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, (max-width: 1200px) 75vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, if you want a domain name you will need to purchase it. There\u2019s a yearly cost to domain names. Coding your own website would just be instead of a website builder, not a domain name. You also will need web hosting to get your website online. You upload your coded files to your web hosting, and connect your domain name to your web hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Are you ready to design &amp; build your own website? Learn more about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/\">UltimateWB<\/a>! We also offer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/web-design-packages\">web design packages<\/a>\u00a0if you would like your website designed and built for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Got a techy\/website question? Whether it\u2019s about UltimateWB or another website builder, web hosting, or other aspects of websites, just send in your question in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/ask-david\">\u201cAsk David!\u201d form<\/a>. We will email you when the answer is posted on the UltimateWB \u201cAsk David!\u201d section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, if you want a domain name you will need to purchase it. There\u2019s a yearly cost to domain names. Coding your own website would just be instead of a website builder, not a domain name. You also will need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/2135\/if-you-code-your-own-website-do-you-still-need-to-purchase-a-domain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034],"tags":[1039,1040,235,18],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-david","tag-coding-from-scratch","tag-coding-from-scratch-vs-website-builder","tag-domain-name","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatewb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}