Do you know who owns your domain name? It's a simple question and usually very easy to find the answer to. Surprisingly, in a lot of cases, your web development company owns your domain name. This isn't really a problem unless your web company was owned by a high school friend of your son's who graduated and moved to the Antartic.
Why is this important? Well each and every year you are required to pay a fee to use your domain name. Of course, you can prepay for years ahead of time (which, by the way, can help SEO). However in almost all case we see, the domain has been set up to renew each year.
What happens if you don't pay? You can lose control of your domain name. You know that name you have printed on every business card, piece of paper, billboard, and vehicle. The domain name you have spent perhaps tens of thousands of dollars marketing to make sure people remember.
Please, please, please find out today who owns your domain name and how can you get control of it. If you are with a reputiable web company you probalby don't have anything to worry about, but it is still good to know.
What else should you ask:
Why is this important? Well each and every year you are required to pay a fee to use your domain name. Of course, you can prepay for years ahead of time (which, by the way, can help SEO). However in almost all case we see, the domain has been set up to renew each year.
What happens if you don't pay? You can lose control of your domain name. You know that name you have printed on every business card, piece of paper, billboard, and vehicle. The domain name you have spent perhaps tens of thousands of dollars marketing to make sure people remember.
Please, please, please find out today who owns your domain name and how can you get control of it. If you are with a reputiable web company you probalby don't have anything to worry about, but it is still good to know.
What else should you ask:
- What service was used to register your domain?
- When does your domain name registration expire?
- Is your registration set to auto renew?
- How often does it renew (every year, 2 years, 5 years, etc.)?
- How can you access my domain name at the registrar? (What is your username and password?)
- Who is listed as the registrant, the technical contact, and the administrative contact? (These can all be different, so make sure you are comfortable with it.)
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