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Password security
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Select a password that is not easy for someone other than you to know
or guess.
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Keep the password in a safe place for yourself.
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If you give your
password to someone else, make sure to change it after the job is
done.
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Password should be 8 characters long and contain a combination of
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If access to
your domain management is secure and you don’t give your user name and
password to anyone else, and you change your password on a regular
basis, chances are negligible that anyone will be able to change any
of the information for your domain or even find a way to highjack it. |
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Maintain your
DomainsNext.com User Account |
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One of the most
important things for you to do is to have an active and up-to-date
email address on file for the administrative contact of your domain
names. This email address is where we will send you renewal notices,
transfer status notices, and any other important registrar updates.
We have found this to be the biggest black hole in the Domain
Management system. Take this scenario for example. You want to
transfer several of your domains to Domainsnext.com from Register.com
to take advantage of DomainsNext’s low rates and avoid renewing the
domains at Register.com’s $35 a year registration fee. If your
domains are associated with a out-of-use email address for the admin
contact, you will never receive the email we send you to approve your
domain transfer and the domains will need to be renewed at your
current registrar. |
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NEW !! Domain
Locking feature – now available for added security |
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Our new
"Registration Lock" is simply a tool you can use to combat and prevent
fraud. Domainsnext.com’s "Registration Lock" provides an extra layer
of protection that is unmatched in the industry. With the lock, the
potential for domain hijacking is drastically reduced since no changes
can be made to your domains without disabling the lock. Note: This
extra security is not required - our normal safeguards exceed the
standards required by ICANN. |
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SECURE WHOIS - New Service for top level privacy and security
added November 19, 2003
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Hide your personal information
from public display. This new service maintains your personal
privacy for your online identity. The cost to use SecureWhois is
only $7.95 per domain per year. Click
HERE
to log in and set
up the SecureWhois service for your domains. |
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Renew early |
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Renew
your domain name on time. You’ve heard horror stories about people
losing their domain names because of non-renewal. One famous example
is with Microsoft. They didn’t renew their domain name on time, and
when the central registry dropped the domain name, someone else
registered it. Because they were Microsoft, they got the domain name
back. But regular customers aren’t this lucky, and they will either
not be able to get their names back, or they will have to pay a hefty
price to buy it back from the new owner. Many foreign companies are
watching and waiting for these domains based on running sophisticated
queries for domains by expiration date, for example. If the domain is
tied to a developed web site and/or it has a significant amount of web
traffic, it is considered a prime target for these domain name
prospectors. There are even web sites on the Internet that publish
lists of domain names that are on hold or unpaid for. Anybody, cyber
squatters and prospectors, you or I can pay a price to reserve these
domain names and have the right to register them when they drop.
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Business domain names registration and renewal guidelines |
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For businesses, we
recommend that you maintain a five-year registration period for your
domain name. You should be aware that renewing your domain name
early, won’t cause you to lose any of the registration time that you
paid for. The number of renewal years adds on the expiration date.
So there is no reason to wait until the last day for your domain to
expire and take a chance of losing your domain. Also important to
know is that you can renew your domain for five years, and later on if
you should decide to transfer your domain to another registrar, the
paid for registration years are not forfeited, they transfer with the
domain. If you have any domain names registered at another registrar
that have future registration years already paid for, you can transfer
them to domainsnext.com now and have the advantage of managing all of
your domains in one location.
The Internet is
still young and many people are still very cautious about who they do
business with on the Internet. When someone searches for your domain
name on the whois database, and sees that your company has a
registration period of 5-10 years for its domain, they know you are
there for the long run rather than wondering if you will be around 3
or four months from now, and they will feel secure doing business with
you. |
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Transferring DNS vs. Transferring a Domain |
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Many hosting
companies confuse their customers on the subjects of transferring DNS
and transferring a domain. We recommend that you choose a hosting
company that is separate from your registrar. Why? If you decide to
change hosting companies, you can do so right away at the registrar.
If the domain name is registered and hosted by the hosting company,
you will get the sense that you are under the mercy of the hosting
company, and if you try to transfer your domain to another registrar,
the hosting company in order to compensate for losing your
registration business, may do one of the following - ask you to
upgrade your domain name by paying more money for additional services,
or they will ask that you pay back a subsidized portion (amount to get
out of the “contract” with them). |
