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Safeguard your domain name(s) by avoiding common mistakes domain owners make which results in losing their domain name:
Domain Expiration: Renew your domain name early at least 90 days prior to expiration. Ensure your domain registrar has the correct e-mail address to notify you about your renewal. Most domain registrars don't send notices via snail mail but instead they send out a renewal notice via email. If your email address has changed and/or the notice ends up in your spam/junk folder, then you risk loosing your domain name if it's not renewed prior to expiration.
At BEZA.NET, we offer domain owners not only email reminders 90, 60, 30 and 5 days prior to expiration, you also receive a dedicated account manager who will personally reach out to you by phone regarding your upcoming domain expiration. This level of service is rare in the industry and typically means higher costs for domain registration and renewals. BEZA.NET has found a way to offer this higher level of service while offering affordable renewals at only $15.50 per year for .com, .net, .org, etc. domain names.
If your domain expires and is then deleted, your domain name will be picked up or sold to domain speculators within seconds. Depending on your domain name popularity, these domain speculators can try to either sell it for thousands and in some cases tens of thousands of dollars back to you, point the domain name to another web site to make money from your web site traffic, or trick prospect customers into giving their credit card information pretending to be your company.
Domain Hijacking: Avoid having your domain hijacked or stolen by ensuring you use a domain registrar that offers a secure network, domain protection and domain lock. A domain hijacker submits a fraudulent registrar transfer request and tricking an unsophisticated domain owner or registrar into giving them control of the name.
Once the hijacker has control of the name, they can ransom off the domain name(s) and redirect traffic to adult pornographic web sites (for profit and shock value).
Legal options can be expensive and time consuming. Domain hijackers typically transfer your domain name(s) to countries where you can't seek legal action and/or it's cost prohibitive.
At BEZA.NET, we take security matters very seriously and as such we ensure your account is safe and secure from unauthorized access, by providing Domain-LOCK free of charge and Domain-Privacy to ensure the bad-guys don't get your information from public WHOIS databases.
Inaccurate contact information: ICANN, the organization who is responsible for all domain names in the U.S. requires domain owners to provide accurate contact information or risk having their domain name revoked. ICANN is requiring all registrars to contact their customers on a yearly basis to verify domain information.
Updating your contact information whenever it changes can be difficult especially if your domain registrar only method of contact is via email or web portal. Make sure your select a domain registrar that can offer you the flexibility to contact them by phone, email, web portal and/or call back. At BEZA.NET, we offer you the ability to choose whichever method is most convenient and ensure you receive the highest level of service and support.
Avoid Free Email Accounts: Free email accounts are insecure and then to get hacked more often then if you spent a few extra dollars to get email via your own domain name. If your email account is compromised, then you risk someone gaining access to your domain authentication key which will permit them to transfer your domain name(s) away to another registrar in a far away country where you can't reclaim it.
BEZA.NET offer affordable email and web site hosting packages starting at less then $10.00 per month. All packages come with FREE lifetime domain renewals.
False Renewal Notices: Never respond to renewal notices sent to you by email, fax and/or postal mail from any company other then the company you have your domain name registered through. Many business owners don't know who their domain registrar is and end up paying hundreds of dollars to scrupulous companies looking to profit off by sending fake renewal notices.
I hope the above common mistakes and ways to avoid them can help you ensure your domain names don't expire, get hijacked or deleted. Consider consolidating your domain names with a registrar that provides the tools you need to securely manage and protect your domain names like BEZA.NET.
BEZA.NET offers some of the best domain management features in the industry and a very user-friendly interface. For customers who don't want to do all of the work, then you can simply pickup the phone and call your dedicated account manager who will gladly assist you at no additional cost
BEZA.NET includes features like an automatic 'Domain Transfer LOCK' by default, managing all of your domain names under one account, an auto domain renewal system which will automatically attempt to renew your domain name 90 days prior to expiration, and of course the ability to reach a live person when you need that extra level of service but without paying a fortune for it.
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