Domain Theft - To be on the alert! (Part 1)

As always, Arrie my hubby brought me tones of magazine and books coming back from his travel to UK.
There was on interesting title when I read Making Money Magazine, it’s about Domain Theft written By Paul Rigby on Making Money, January 2007, to be on your alert I think, for the one who did much in online biz

Here I try to re-explain what I understand about the domain theft means was, how this can happen and how to avoid it?

As we know that many individual and businesses have a website but few understand their rights to the ownerships of that site or their responsibility to maintain that ownership. Some companies have cried out ‘foul!’ that their website have been stolen directly after they logged on the internet to look at their website and something completely different appeared.

When you create a website there are three costs involved:

1. You spent some money to purchase the domain or URL.


2. You purchase a hosting package. This is the money you pay to rent the space in one of thousand web servers


3. You pay to have your website created and maintained by a website designer of you choosing. Or you can ignore this cost coz many people did it by them self.

Whether you or someone else purchases the domain name of you website, make certain that you have the contact details from the company it was purchased from and the corresponding username and password to access control over the domain’s use.

Most importantly, make sure you are listed as the registered owner of the website and that the privilege has not been handed over to the person or company that is creating you website for you. Your web administrator can be listed as the technical contact or administrative contact but you need to be listed as registered owner.

This was, if any changes are made to the status or the domain, you are informed as well and you should be notified when the domain name is about to expire.
This is how many businesses website are stolen, the owner is not listed, you didn’t know that you rent period has been expired, it is concerned as a victim of ignorance. (to be continued )