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What is Your Rights as Domain Owner?

Pin — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:44:42 +0000

Registry, Registrant, Registrar, Domain Name Reseller, Admin contact, Billing contact, Technical contact… It is never easy to understand the difference between them.

You are lucky if you have one good domain name service provider who take care of your domain name so well that you don’t need to deal with those terms!

Finding a good domain name provider is not a hit-or-miss decision. To understand your rights as a domain name owner, it would be helpful if you know what should be done by a domain name company.

Companies who provide you the domain name registration services, should at least be responsible for the following matters,

1. Assist the domain name owner to maintain up-to-date registration info (WHOIS records). At least remind your customers every one or two years!

2. Collect renewal fee and renew the domain name. Reminder and a short note on successful renewal is a must!

3. Able to provide their customers an access to the domain name manager to make any changes. Customers should have the rights to ask for this information. Most Registrars provide domain name manager, except a few country-level registrars such as Vietname or Cambodia Nic.

4. To respect domain name owner’s decision to choose for new domain name service provider. Full support such as providing Auth Code without delay, is the industries ethics!

To all domain name owner:

if any of your domain name service provider who failed to comply any of the items above, it is not end of the world or dead-lock. They can’t just ignore you like that. They are always ways to bypass them and reclaims your rights. Let me know if you need any help! You can reach me at pin@1.com.my.

What Makes Good Domain Reseller?

Pin — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:49:03 +0000

1. Who knows you might have come out with a good name that worth some good money like pizza.com? Check your domain name availability from sources you can trust. NEVER use Netsol.com, they have a strange policy that block you from register the new-found-name from others between a certain period of time.

2. Find a domain name reseller with shorter processing time. Domain name registration can be done in minutes except those country-based domain name such as .com.my which take hours to a day. Before placing an order, make sure your reseller can process your domain name without any delay.

3. After your domain name registered successfully, run WHOIS to make sure the domain name was registered under your name or organization. Make sure it’s your email under the Registrant section. Your name and email are the two most important information to prove the ownership of your domain.

4. You can find two DNS address associated with every domain name. Remember when you have entered a domain name in the web brower and hit enter? The query sent to DNS to find out where is your web server, etc. If your DNS server is down, the query will fail. Check out this DNS uptime report!

5. Your domain name expires every year unless you have renewed it in time. A good renewal system by your reseller is important and make sure you don’t miss any of this important date like Advertlets.com

Suggestion to choose a good domain name

10 Tips for Picking a Domain Name

Pin — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:10:01 +0000

Watch the Video Blog by Bob, founder of GoDaddy.com. Bob talked about 10 very useful tips of picking a domain name, interesting!