Oct 27
200827 Proven ways to lose your domain name(s)
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27 Proven ways to lose your domain name
Pretty good list and humorous article for webmasters titled “27 Proven ways to lose your domain name(s)” From sdsinc posted on dnforum.com.
1. Do not keep a list of all your names and the respective registrars
2. Rely on the registrar reminders when renewal comes due
3. Do not renew until the last day or better yet after the name has expired
4. Attempt to transfer the name when it has already expired
5. Make sure your whois info is not accurate and up-to-date. In particular use a free E-mail account as registrant contact. Accounts like hotmail have low quotas so incoming mail will bounce or be purged after a certain amount of time. Your account will be disabled if you don’t use it often enough so you will be unable to read important registrar notifications or reminders.
6. Never ever register for more than one year in advance
7. Do not use the auto-renew featured offered by the registrar. If you do, make sure your credit card info is not current or use a card number that is maxed out.
8. Do not register the names yourself, you have better things to do than bothering with such lowly things as your virtual estate. Delegate the task to your ISP or hosting provider instead. The advantages are numerous:
- you need to beg every time you need to make changes to your domain parameters like DNS or change of ownership
- they will charge you a fee for doing so on top of their inflated registration fee
- you will pay way more than if you did register them yourself
- if you are lucky, high staff turnover will result in the company losing oversight of the names and they will eventually drop, yet they continue to charge you so you don’t notice your names are gone
- in case of billing disputes your names will be held hostage
9. Do not the park your unused names. So you have no idea of traffic or do not notice drops in traffic which may reveal domain/DNS issues. Do not take advantage of parking & PPC revenue on your unused names.
10. Register names that suck so you will regret it within minutes of registering them. You won’t want to renew them anyway.
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