Open Structure Planning Part Two

Domain Hostile Take Overs are a real life tragedy, when your Web Host is hostile, and you can’t access your emails and what not. When the WHOIS DATA of the Domain Registrant is unaccessible, people who are with Mal Intent hack into the EMail Account and deliberately Transfer the Domain to another Registry without proper authority. They then change the Domain Name Servers and put the site involved to a link mongering page.

One trouble we commonly hear, is that BACK ORDERING. Back Ordering is when you fail to renew your domain on time and it goes into REDEMPTION PERIOD where it can cost anything over $150 to redeem the domain and after 30 days, it’s released back to public domain. I have had a lot of my domains taken over many years ago when I was dead broke, and it was Network Solutions as the only registrar then. One of my cherished domain was Gizmo.NET which is really a real deal. A hard way to get the domain back is to file for IDRP, or International Dispute Resolution Policy for infrigement of the patent or copyright. So, there is a sort of protection against CyberSquatters alike.

One good process is to RENEW THE DOMAIN UP TO THE MAXIMUM, normally for 10 Years (nine if it’s still live) and for domains like Tonga (Somewhere.TO), you can buy a TOnga domain and pay for a .TO Domain for US$25 a year for 100 years, compared to $50 a year. Only good thing about .TO domain is that it’s BUILT IN with WHOIS PRIVACY!

Talking about WHOIS PRIVACY and Domain Name Accuracy, GoDaddy has been known to DELETE DOMAIN NAMES that does not have accurate details.Meaning, if you use a fake or inaccurate / nonrespondent email address and/or mailing address and telephone number, and someone complains about it to GoDaddy or ICANN, the domain will be deleted.

So, now we have talked about Contingency Planning for DOMAIN NAME.

But what if we use LIVE SYSTEMS? How do we utilise a FLIP? And WHAT IS A FLIP?
That is in Part 3