1. Do you know when your domain name expires?
2. Do you know who gets notified?
3. Who has control over your domain registration?
You might not give this enough thought, but it can happen to you. Please read the tips below which should help you avoid the loss of your domain name. The loss of domain can be difficult or impossible to regain which can have devastating effects on your business and your branding efforts. I have seen it happen to those who were unaware.
• If you have another party register the domain on your behalf, make sure the contract specifies that you own the domain and will be listed as the registrant.
• If you're not sure how this was handled for an existing domain, check. Look up the registrant using a service like whois.domaintools.com.
• If you want the registration to be anonymous, work with a reputable firm that will ensure your control over the domain even while listing itself as the registrant.
• The best solution is to take direct control over the domain account. If you didn't do so to start with, have it transferred into your name now.
Consider having the main e-mail address associated with the record forwarded to multiple people. You don't want your organization's domain to lapse because expiration notices were going to the personal e-mail of the former employee who set up the account.
As a virtual assistant, when I assist a client in setting up their domain name, I make sure to calendar reminders and to have myself listed as one of the persons to be notified. Clients will sometimes change email accounts and over the course of time emails may not get forwarded to their current address.
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