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Password security
guidelines |
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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
letters and numbers. |
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 NextRegister.com User
Account |
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 NextRegister.com from
Register.com to take advantage of NextRegister’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 |
Our new
"Registration Lock" is simply a tool you can use to combat and
prevent fraud. NextRegister.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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Renew early |
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 |
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 NextRegister.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 |
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). |