[Hidden-tech] domain expiration issues

[Rich Roth]

Rob,
you raise an important issue, How to keep domains that are important for 
a company (or individual)

1) NEVER have the email on the domain the same as the domain - use a 
gmail.com email

2) NEVER use an individuals email for the domain contact, no matter what 
that domain on the email is.
People leave, people ignore emails or are on vacation.
Use a 'role' account such as accting-ourcompany at gmail.com or 
domain-ourcompany at gmail.com if you have many.

3) Use auto-renewal on the important ones, of course make sure the 
credit card is updated.

4) This is a tricky one, some companies are doing 4-5 year (or more) 
renewals.  I find renewing each year, esp with auto-renew is safer. If 
your domain doesn't need renewing for a multi-year period, is actually 
riskier.

A new issue that I have yet to figure out, is that the latest ICANN 
rules reduce the 45 renewal period for 'premium domains' -- -exactly 
what that means and which domains it applies to are still a bit of a 
mystery.. SO don't let your domains expire.

Rich

On 10/19/2017 7:57 PM, Rob Laporte wrote:
> A big client of ours has an intellectual property lawyer and general counsel whose excellence and success requires no great website or other marketing: Larry Graves, www.ipbizlaw.com.
>
> Coincidentally yesterday we dealt with having to reclaim a client’s domain name that someone bought at GoDaddy, and no expiration emails were received, so it went to a Wild West Domains, LLC, which I believe is part of GoDaddy. I’m not the one at my firm who resolved it favorably, within a 45(?) day recapture window I believe, but my point is that if such registrars, by some wild fluke, just happen to use only for domain expiration warnings email servers with dirty IP addresses that are likely to go to spam folders or be blocked by a web host, well then someone stands to gain profit from a percentage of desperate past owners. So checking all one’s (clients’) domain expiration dates and email recipients seems one of the many things for which a recurring calendar reminder makes sense.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Rob Laporte
> Founder & Managing Partner
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>> On Oct 19, 2017, at 5:12 PM, Sam McClellan <sam at itabix.com> wrote:
>>
>> It also might not hurt to rattle the legal saber, have a lawyer
>> (friend?) send them a warning threatening action even if you don't have
>> a legal ground.
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