{"id":45,"date":"2011-03-31T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cluewebhost.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2011-03-31T19:41:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:41:22","slug":"dos-and-donts-of-securing-a-domain-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cluewebhost.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/dos-and-donts-of-securing-a-domain-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Do’s and Don’ts of Securing a Domain Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your business domain name is the Most Important (and probably Cheapest) asset your business Owns on the Internet. This is what identifies your business to millions of internet users worldwide.<\/p>\n

In Interactions with clients, especially those with domain names<\/a> from other sources, we have seen a lot of disturbing occurrences, the latest of which was a Hosting Company which refused (& is still refusing) to switch nameservers to a Dedicated Server<\/a> which we set up for a client this domain was registered in the name of the former company with no access for the customer to it.<\/p>\n

While surfing the Net, I stumbled across this Post on Entrepreneur.com<\/a> and felt rather than writing a whole new post, it would be better to share with you.<\/p>\n

The Article contains advice such as:<\/p>\n

Include a location or keywords in your domain name, if you can.<\/p>\n

Register yourself as the owner of the domain name.<\/p>\n

Remember to renew your domain name registration.<\/p>\n

Don’t Use dashes, abbreviations or numbers in your domain name.<\/p>\n

Don’t Waste money on extensions other than .com. (I disagree with this though<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Don’t Buy a domain without checking into its past.<\/p>\n

The Full article is at http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/219410?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+entrepreneur%2Flatest+%28Entrepreneur+Update%29#<\/p>\n

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