Rule #1 I've tried to tell people since the 90's: if the contact email on your domain is not yours, it's not your domain. It may be legally yours, but that's p

Rule #1 I've tried to tell people since the 90's: if the contact email on your domain is not yours, it's not your domain. It may be legally yours, but that's pretty f-ing useless if you go out of business whilst trying to gain actual control over it. In a practical sense, nothing else matters more on your domain registration than controlling the email-address on the admin-contact, and actually reading the damn email. (Which also means, no spam filtering that you don't control and by which important notifications may be filtered out as false positives.) Legal ownership of the registration comes a distant second. If you can't handle that, outsource your domain management to a trusted party, and don't bitch about "but registrar X is soooo much cheaper". You don't pay them for registering your domain, you pay them for making sure your domain remains yours 24/7. Managing your domain registrations is a way too important to neglect, but most organizations are ridiculously careless about them, even though one day of being unreachable may lose them a shitload of money.