There is a whole industry that does nothing except to buy and resell expired domain names, and most of their resources come from capturing expired domain names of enterprises, like you have.
Knowing these ten points below, you can save hours and make things worse, and also save your business with hundreds or even thousands of dollars.
These are, in my opinion, ten things that you must know about the domain name of your company ...
The name of the domain registrar is the company from which your domain was acquired. The registrars website is the only place where you can update or update any domain information — look at http://www.betterwhois.com and enter your domain name and then the verification code you provide. Instantly you will be given the name of your registrar.
Domain registrar's username and password - wherever your domain is registered, there is a username and password required to make any changes. This username and password are crucial for you.
After identifying a registrar, visit their website and try to log in. If you do not know the username and account name, you will need to contact them by phone or email.
Registrant Domain. Usually the business owner is the owner of the registration. But who owns the login name and password actually controls the domain.
The registrant is the legal owner, but many companies find out too late that they are not owners of domain names! Often this is a former employee, or a web hosting or design company that they hired to create a website.
This leaves the site owner in the cold if they ever want to do hosting or design changes. Your initial search at http://www.betterwhois.com will also show this information under the registrar's name.
Contact information for a domain registrar. Registrar contact information MUST be stored on the registrar website. If you register a domain name, and then change your email address or ISP, you will never know that your domain name will expire and you will lose your domain name.
Check the registrant’s contact information on the registrar's website. So most domain names are lost. When the validity period expires, the registrar attempts to notify the registrar. If there is no answer, you will lose it.
The expiration date of the domain. For obvious reasons, you should be well aware of when your domain name will expire. There are vultures on every branch of the tree waiting to be dropped on your expired domain name, and then try to sell it to its rightful owner 20, 50, or even 100 or 1,000 times the actual cost.
Domain “Blocked Status” - registration of new domain names by default is “blocked” by the registrar. This means that no changes can occur without the notification email sent to the registrar. If you have a domain for several years, your registrar may not block your domain name. Check it out on your registration website.
Your web host is hard to believe, but many companies face the loss of a key employee, they don’t even know who hosts their website. To determine your web host, follow these steps:
1. Use http://www.betterwhois.com to define the “Name Server” settings
2. Visit a DNS item and use the search field in the DNS Search section (select “NS” from the drop-down list) to find one of your name server settings. Simply enter the domain name without the first prefix, which is usually NS.
3. This should give you the name of the domain to which your name servers belong. In many cases it will match, but in some cases it will be a different domain name.
4. After you have the domain name of the name server owner, just go to this site to get their contact information.
FTP username and password for your domain. It is important not only to know the company that hosts your domain, but also to know their phone number, email address and their website. However, in order to make any changes to your website, you need to know your FTP address, FTP username, and FTP password.
This information must be carefully protected and must always change after any key employee or subcontractor leaves your job.
Access to the domain control panel is provided by your web host for convenience, and you must add or remove any email addresses, mailing lists, FTP users or subdomains to your current domain.
Full control over everything on your website begins here, and the username and password for the control panel should also be closed and distributed only on the “need to know” principle.
Site visitor statistics. Only the most outdated web hosts do not provide comprehensive free reporting to visitors to your site. Surprisingly, many business owners do not even know that they exist, or have no idea about the wealth of knowledge they possess. Contact your web host and find out where and how you access your site statistics and give them an idea.
Some definitions are:
A domain name is your URL or your “address” on the Internet. http://www.domainname.com
A registrant is the legal owner of any domain name. Contrary to popular belief, it may not only be a business owner or a company using a domain name
A registrar is an online service for registering domain names. There are dozens, sometimes even hundreds of registrars to choose from, and prices range from $ 7 to $ 30 per year for a domain name.
How empty were you if you lost your domain name and all email addresses of your company? Not a month goes by, and I don’t face one more thing related to their pants ... Do not dare to be near!
Find out the answers to these ten points, fill them out on a sheet and save them for future use. You never know when you need it.
