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Couple of tips for domain owners: 1. Don't turn off the reminder emails from your registrar. I know they can be annoying and you probably get too many of them,

Couple of tips for domain owners: 1. Don't turn off the reminder emails from your registrar. I know they can be annoying and you probably get too many of them, but turning them off means that you won't know when your credit card expires and your domain isn't going to renew automatically (for example). 2. Use a valid, real email address for your owner contact. Use WHOIS Privacy if you are concerned about spammers harvesting WHOIS for emails. Don't use support@ or webmaster@ unless you check those emails regularly. ICANN now requires your registrar to verify your email address and a single bounced email to the owner contact triggers that process. If you don't see it, you'll be offline in 15 days. 3. Treat your domains as the valuable assets they are. Yes, $15/year...not expensive in the grand scheme of things. But the value of that domain is likely much, much higher to you and your company. ps. More on the new ICAAN registrant verification process which started on January 1, 2014 can be found here: https://help.hover.com/entries/25406514-Registrant-verification https://help.hover.com/entries/25406514-Registrant-verificat...

danielweber 12y ago
I argue that your email address for registrars should be secret[1], and every time an email goes to it an alarm bell should ring until someone reads it. [1] So don't use "domain@mycompany.com", use "domain-manager-481234@mycompany.com". Recognize that this is purely an obfuscation layer, not meant to provide security in and of itself, but to cut down on the noise so that you always examine every mail to it very closely.
ds9 12y ago
I wonder whether it is also a bad practice to set the contact email to an address on one of the domains that that registrar controls. I.e., register example.com with DomainCo, and your contact is whatever@example.com? I actually do this and am considering changing the contact email for registrar 'A' to something independent of 'A'. It does seem hard to have enough confidence in the reliability of any email address.

danielweber 12y ago

I argue that your email address for registrars should be secret[1], and every time an email goes to it an alarm bell should ring until someone reads it. [1] So don't use "domain@mycompany.com", use "domain-manager-481234@mycompany.com". Recognize that this is purely an obfuscation layer, not meant to provide security in and of itself, but to cut down on the noise so that you always examine every mail to it very closely.

ds9 12y ago

I wonder whether it is also a bad practice to set the contact email to an address on one of the domains that that registrar controls. I.e., register example.com with DomainCo, and your contact is whatever@example.com? I actually do this and am considering changing the contact email for registrar 'A' to something independent of 'A'. It does seem hard to have enough confidence in the reliability of any email address.