So You Have a Domain Name, Now What?
Newsletter Piece, September 2008
So You Have a Domain Name, Now What?
You run a search for the perfect domain name, it’s available (Yay!), and pay a few bucks for it to be registered for the next year. You’re done, right? Not so fast. There are predators out there who not only want you to pay them to register your domain, but they want to make life miserable for you as well.
It’s a lesson Attorney (of all people) Elisabeth Frater of Gravett and Frater, LLP in Napa, California learned—and continues to be reminded of—after an offer that would save her a few bucks to register with a new company came near the end of her domain subscription. That change in registration did save her a few dollars, but cost her many days of headaches after her site disappeared off the internet. To make matters worse, she and her husband lost access to their emails for two weeks.
“I only wanted them to register my name, but they hijacked my Web site—which wasn’t what I contracted them to do,” said Frater. “I did not want them to host my site just register my domain name.”
Net-Flow saved the day for Frater by helping get her site back live on the Internet, but Frater is temporarily stuck with a registration through a company she feels did her wrong, “I’m not that technologically sophisticated so I was ripe for the picking,” she added. Frater now says the obvious solution to avoid such scams is to find a reputable company like Net-Flow for domain registration—begging the question: What makes a company reputable?
Frater has learned it’s important to rely on her Web Team or to get recommendations from trusted friends to pick the right team to rely on. “When I say find someone who is reputable, I mean you have to find someone who will follow through with what they say they will do and is willing to help you out when it’s not even a problem they created—like Net-Flow.com, which has an excellent reputation in our community.” She adds, “Net-Flow.com has been wonderful. I would highly recommend them.”
