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Casual Articles - Don't Risk Losing Your Business Domain Name! Or-WHOIS My Registrar?
Power Teams seem like an ideal way to promote your business and offer a wide range of services. It is true when they work well. Although the concept is excellent, you should not work with a Power Team unless you have an agreement in place. With an agreement, you will be able to define what is important and how to divide the spoils. Never leave anything to chance. If you know that you will be providing one hundred hours of work and the other team member will be providing only twenty, then the agreement must reflect how you plan on handling the revenues. For example, I worked on a project with a team member and although we thought I would be working most of the hours, in reality it turned out the other way around. Because we had an agreement in place that defined the way we were paid, there was no problem. Keeping accurate records of time spent and the value given to the cust
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse
From the outside, things could not look more perfect. You have a great husband, terrific kids, a fantastic house and go on amazing holidays. Why is it, then, that inside you're screaming?Who are you? Chances are you're a bright, educated woman, probably with two or three children, who gave up her own career to follow her husband. But now, you're about ready to walk. You're not alone: Studies have shown that a high percentage of marriages that fail do so because the wife is unhappy about sacrificing her own career or the life she had envisioned for herself.There's a new trend leading women are taking to enjoy happier lives. Lets look at this new movement towards creating something for yourself; and becoming a successful business women. Just for a moment let go, don't worry about - your kids, your husband, your schedule - and just let yourself dream.What does your busin
It wasn't until my third client had called asking how to regain control of her domain name that I realized that it was a common problem for small business webmasters to forget where they had registered their domains. WHOIS my registrar? Why didn't I get an email about renewal? Why did my site stop working today?
People rarely realize how important it is to keep their domain registrar notified of changes to their email address and and other contact information. The registrar will send renewal notifications to the email address last on file. For most domain owners, the only time they think about contacting a registrar is the day they reserve their domain name. If they move to a new city and get a new internet service provider, it doesn't occur to them that the old email address will change and that meeans that the registrar can no longer contact them through the previous address, or phone or fax as each of them change and we rarely notify the controller of our domain of those changes.
Sometimes the first indication a business owner will have that there is a problem is the day their web site stops working. If they failed to notify their domain registrar of changed email address, they may never have received their domain renewal notice. Since many registrars honor a 30 day "redemption period" allowing expired domains to be redeemed, it may be possible to save the registration within 30 days following expiration by contacting registrars during 30 day domain redemption periods.
The following URL leads to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (AKA ICANN) discussing the grace period and redemption period rules it enforces.
http://www.icann.org/bucharest/redemption-topic.htm
So how does a domain owner find out who their registrar is if they've forgotten? Simple WHOIS inquiries will tell you everything the registrar knows about your domain. Public WHOIS records show the owner's contact email, street address, phone and fax numbers. But that's not all, it also shows the current registrar, DNS servers, the creation and expiration dates of the domain name. Here is how to check your WHOIS data. Type the following into your browser address bar:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=google.com
Replace google.com with your domain name and click go. If you don't, you'll see the following contact information:
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-14290820) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
*********@google.com
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
You'll also see the domain servers, which usually includes the host name like so:
Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
This normally shows only two servers (Google is bigger than you.)
So now that you are armed with WHOIS data, you can see:
- Who the registrar is. (Hence WHOIS)
- Who the Domain Administrative, technical contacts are.
- Owner names, addresses, emails, phone and fax numbers.
- Domain creation, expiration and "last updated" dates.
- Domain servers and backup servers.
What do you do if your domain name shows expired and it has stopped working? Do that WHOIS search and contact the listed registrar at their customer support number. They'll ask you to prove who you are by verifying some registration details. If you can't remember access passwords to log in to domain management consoles, they'll often accept faxed copies of your photo ID or a some standard identification proof and reset your username and password to give you access again.
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse b
This is a very difficult decision for any physician and partially boils down to this or her own personal ideology and comfort level.Hospital-based physicians will almost always be better off outsourcing because of the office related expenses that they would not otherwise incur. As the owner of medical billing service you may think I'm naturally biased towards outsourcing. I can assure you that this is not the case.Physicians who are overly controlling, uncomfortable or mis-trusting toward billing services are nearly impossible to administer. I don't want anything to do with those types of physicians but I completely respect and understand their point of view. Setting all ideology aside I would like to delve into the pros and cons of this difficult and complicated decision.I am a physician who is very interested in the business aspect of medicine and I do not mind s
Sometimes the first indication a business owner will have that there is a problem is the day their web site stops working. If they failed to notify their domain registrar of changed email address, they may never have received their domain renewal notice. Since many registrars honor a 30 day "redemption period" allowing expired domains to be redeemed, it may be possible to save the registration within 30 days following expiration by contacting registrars during 30 day domain redemption periods.
The following URL leads to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (AKA ICANN) discussing the grace period and redemption period rules it enforces.
http://www.icann.org/bucharest/redemption-topic.htm
So how does a domain owner find out who their registrar is if they've forgotten? Simple WHOIS inquiries will tell you everything the registrar knows about your domain. Public WHOIS records show the owner's contact email, street address, phone and fax numbers. But that's not all, it also shows the current registrar, DNS servers, the creation and expiration dates of the domain name. Here is how to check your WHOIS data. Type the following into your browser address bar:
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=google.com
Replace google.com with your domain name and click go. If you don't, you'll see the following contact information:
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-14290820) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
*********@google.com
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
You'll also see the domain servers, which usually includes the host name like so:
Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
This normally shows only two servers (Google is bigger than you.)
So now that you are armed with WHOIS data, you can see:
- Who the registrar is. (Hence WHOIS)
- Who the Domain Administrative, technical contacts are.
- Owner names, addresses, emails, phone and fax numbers.
- Domain creation, expiration and "last updated" dates.
- Domain servers and backup servers.
What do you do if your domain name shows expired and it has stopped working? Do that WHOIS search and contact the listed registrar at their customer support number. They'll ask you to prove who you are by verifying some registration details. If you can't remember access passwords to log in to domain management consoles, they'll often accept faxed copies of your photo ID or a some standard identification proof and reset your username and password to give you access again.
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse
In addition to writing articles and participating in forums it seems I have stumbled on to this fun new way of generating back links to your site. I don't know who came up with this or who started this game but it seems to me the possiblities are endless. I thought I should write an article about it. The game is called "blog tagging." Here is how you play the game:You find 5 blogs of similar interest or content as yours and then post a comment to them saying " you have been tagged " with a link back to your site. Getting response shouldn't be hard as people like games if there is something in it for them. At your site you have an explanation something along these lines:Blog Tagging. What's It All About?Ok. Maria did this tagging thing with me. She doesn't know either who started the game, but it's a fun and creative way to get links back to your blog. If you get tag
http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=google.com
Replace google.com with your domain name and click go. If you don't, you'll see the following contact information:
Administrative Contact:
DNS Admin (NIC-14290820) Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
US
*********@google.com
+1.6506234000
Fax- +1.6506188571
You'll also see the domain servers, which usually includes the host name like so:
Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
This normally shows only two servers (Google is bigger than you.)
So now that you are armed with WHOIS data, you can see:
- Who the registrar is. (Hence WHOIS)
- Who the Domain Administrative, technical contacts are.
- Owner names, addresses, emails, phone and fax numbers.
- Domain creation, expiration and "last updated" dates.
- Domain servers and backup servers.
What do you do if your domain name shows expired and it has stopped working? Do that WHOIS search and contact the listed registrar at their customer support number. They'll ask you to prove who you are by verifying some registration details. If you can't remember access passwords to log in to domain management consoles, they'll often accept faxed copies of your photo ID or a some standard identification proof and reset your username and password to give you access again.
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse
A Brilliant Marketing Idea... sounds great but what is it? Is it the idea that results in the mailman ringing your doorbell, signaling in a caravan of postal workers with mounds of letters (all in response to your latest advertisement)? Is it the idea that brings a 20% response rate on your direct mail campaign?Surely these ideas would be considered brilliant marketing ideas...right? Well, maybe. It depends on the costs incurred generating the response. If the cost of the marketing was greater than the income it generated, it doesn’t matter how great the response, it’s not very brilliant.The following ideas will get you started marketing brilliantly in no time!BUSINESS CARDSPrint (or stamp) something on your business card that will prompt the holder to contact you (and/or to keep the card). Examples: “Return this card for a FREE loaf of bread” (baker), “10% of
Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.GOOGLE.COM
NS4.GOOGLE.COM
NS1.GOOGLE.COM
NS2.GOOGLE.COM
This normally shows only two servers (Google is bigger than you.)
So now that you are armed with WHOIS data, you can see:
- Who the registrar is. (Hence WHOIS)
- Who the Domain Administrative, technical contacts are.
- Owner names, addresses, emails, phone and fax numbers.
- Domain creation, expiration and "last updated" dates.
- Domain servers and backup servers.
What do you do if your domain name shows expired and it has stopped working? Do that WHOIS search and contact the listed registrar at their customer support number. They'll ask you to prove who you are by verifying some registration details. If you can't remember access passwords to log in to domain management consoles, they'll often accept faxed copies of your photo ID or a some standard identification proof and reset your username and password to give you access again.
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse
In the Music Biz, marketing makes the difference between artist and musicians succeeding or failing.There are a few marketing key terms that you should know to be able to market your music successfully. This article deals with the first and most important marketing technique - branding.Branding involves creating symbols that potential fans or "target's" will associate with you or your product. Those symbols when combined and attributed to your brand are then known as your brands identity.Branding is reflected in everything you do or say as an artist or musician.The pictures you take, Your autograph signatures, your name, logo, interviews, cover art and anything audible or visual should all be taken into consideration when developing your brand identity.If your music brand is still young (under five years), be careful of everything you d
Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (since divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone to register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.
Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse both with the domain registrar. Since many ISP's offer web space, or hosting, and also provide domain registration through their initial signup package, it's not easy to separate the three distinctly different entities. You needn't host with your internet service provider and they're (almost) never your domain registrar. Keep them separate and completely apart in your mind.
- Internet service provider. (AT&T, Verizon, SBC Global.)
- Web hosting provider. (Pair Networks, Verio web hosts.)
- Domain Registrar. (GoDaddy, Register.com Yahoo Domains.)
This same client had nearly told her old web host to close her account before we found out that the registrar had her old, previous email address as "Administrative contact" email for her domain name. It took two days to straighten that out and make corrections. Her site would have been down for two days if she had shut down her old hosting account as she had planned before speaking with me. She had a new hosting account set up, but failed to realize the importance of the registrar change to DNS server records in the moving scenario.
We then notified the previous host of the change, only AFTER the domain was resolving to the new host so that when the site was turned off at the old host, it was already working at the new host.
Don't be caught by surprise! You can protect your domain name by registering it for the maximum time of ten years and extend it every year to that final, tenth year, rather than waiting for it to near expiration. This will prevent you losing control of the name, but shouldn't mean you can forget your registrar login details or renewal date. How likely is it that you will move, or at least change internet service providers within that ten years? Be sure to keep your registrar apprised of new email, street address, phone numbers at all times! Especially that all important Administrative contact email. "WHOIS" your domain registrar? Do you have domain name management console login details? Have you extended your registration to ten years? Your business is worth careful domain name management.
Copyright August 31, 2006 Mike Banks Valentine
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