Domain Registrars – A new threat to your domain name!
It’s like a dream for many beginners to get a wonderful domain name and all are almost begging to get such a domain name. In this competition, many youngsters are also in thought of saving money and hence they all went to low cost domain registrars without knowing anything about the registrars.
Here starts the problem. Do you know what kind of problems that you are going to face after registering your domain name? Let’s see one by one.
Problems
- Most of them don’t offer what they have promised.
- One of my old domain registrar don’t even offer Domain Lock service for me. Likewise, they may deny basic needs of the customers.
- Some of them didn’t exist for a long time. One of my friend registered a domain through a cheap domain registrar. But after 6 months, the domain registrar went offline and my friend was unable to access his domain control panel.
- Still some of the domain registrars are registering domains under their name instead of registering under the customers name. It happened two years before for me.
- If your domain name is a premium one, there is a chance of takeover of your domain name by them. It happened to me as my previous domain registrar took my domain without my notice.
- They may deny domain name transfer to an another registrar. One of my friend got this problem with an Asian domain registrar.
- They may sell your domain name. Yes. You can see many domain registrars are doing this right now.
I am not against the low cost domain registrars. But there are some fraudsters everywhere and it happens also in domain registration service. It is must for you to take care of your domain name.
What are you thinking right now? Share with us. Definitely yours will be wonderful than mine!
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Oct 10, 2009 @ 7:07 AM
Well, I don’t think that these problems may exist with a good domain registrar.
It may happen if someone uses a brand new registrar but with reputable registrars like GoDaddy and NameCheap, there may not be a single issue!
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Oct 10, 2009 @ 7:54 PM
@Mr. I,
Yes. That’s what I said in this post itself. We should be very careful before registering a domain name.
Oct 10, 2009 @ 7:42 PM
Very helpful post but i registered almost 10 domains few for my self and others for my clients with Bizzhost.co. Till now i didn’t face any such problems but still i think i have to inquire about it. I heard about International Domain name, I just want to know difference between International and Normal domain. How can i check whether my domain is International or Normal?
With Regards
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Oct 10, 2009 @ 7:58 PM
@Kevin Subba,
Well Kevin. Don’t worry about your domain names with BizzHost. I too a proud customer of BizzHost and they are simply amazing with their service. BizzHost is not just a small company and you can trust them.
You have confused yourself with the terms International and Normal domain names.
.Com, .Net, .Org, .Info, .Biz are some of the generic top level domains and .in, .co.in, .co.uk are some of the regional top level domains. Nothing more than that.
Oct 10, 2009 @ 8:00 PM
Hi, Thanks you very much for your prompt reply!
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Oct 10, 2009 @ 8:27 PM
@Kevin Subba,
You are most welcome Kevin. Feel free to ask anything at anytime.
Oct 10, 2009 @ 9:08 PM
Always choose reputated and certified domain registrars. I am currently using GoDaddy. If you want to know about good domain registrars ask fellow bloggers. They will gladly help you out.
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Oct 10, 2009 @ 10:49 PM
@Agent 001,
Well thanks for your suggestion. But to my luck, I know all those domain registrars and hence I got registered my domains through NameCheap.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 12:34 AM
I don’t think this is goona be a serious problem. But yes there are cheap hosting that you need to be careful off.
When you register a domain, you would get a Key in your domain cpanel, make sure you save that key, that’s gonna help you transfer the domain to a new host!
thanks for highlighting!
Sharath
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 5:45 PM
@sharath,
Hmm. Of course you are correct. But we still don’t know whether some domain resellers will take that secret key or not!
Oct 11, 2009 @ 1:20 AM
i don’t think they are registrar’s !! they are just a reseller of some registrars !!
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 5:48 PM
@Abhishek,
You are correct. Most of them are resellers. But remember there are some registrars too in this list. I will come up with the details in my upcoming post about those people.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 4:14 AM
I think I read once that even if your registrar goes bankrupt, your domain will still be active and available, though it might take longer to move it to a different registrar – but at least you’re still “owning” it and being able to use it.
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 5:51 PM
@Klaus @ TechPatio,
Yes. We need the Domain secret key to transfer our domain. If not we should wait for a long period to get back our domain.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 8:56 AM
In my opinion you can’t go wrong with Godaddy, good service, cheap and they will always be around. I also wanted to stop by and let you know your blog has been selected for entry in the “Rookie Blogger of the Year” contest on TycoonBlogger.com. Voting will start on Oct 15, Good Luck!
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 6:11 PM
@Tycoon Blogger,
Thanks for letting me know about the contest. I wish my luck in that.
GoDaddy is one of the most reputed domain registrar like you have said.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 10:33 AM
You are right Karthikeyan and offcourse there is not much cost difference b/w cheap registrar and reputed company like Godaddy. Then why choose Cheap registrar for saving 1 or 2$. I am a happy customer of Godaddy and will try Bizzhost soon.
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 6:36 PM
@Avi Singh,
Glad to see you here.
You are correct. Saving a single penny is not important than getting a good business people. I recommend you BizzHost.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 2:50 PM
Specially don’t believe the local reseller hosting people. Good points you listed dude..
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 6:37 PM
@TechZoomIn,
That’s a good thing Lax. We should be care always.
Oct 11, 2009 @ 5:00 PM
I rely totally on Godaddy, and totally satisfied. Though namecheap is also a good registrar. Never take any risk while deal with domain or hosting.
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Oct 11, 2009 @ 6:38 PM
@Himanshu,
Yes. I love both Godaddy and NameCheap. But I am happy with NameCheap because of their excellent support and easy control panel.
As you have said, never take risk.
Oct 12, 2009 @ 4:46 AM
If you stick to the well known domain registrars you should not have a problem!
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Oct 12, 2009 @ 11:37 AM
@David Shaw,
Glad to see you here. I agree with your point.
Oct 12, 2009 @ 6:53 PM
Must be more careful nest time. I never face something like this before.
Oct 13, 2009 @ 1:08 AM
I will never trust local and small players. Going with big name is safer option.
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Oct 13, 2009 @ 11:36 AM
We must choose the best domain registars like godaddy
Oct 13, 2009 @ 7:54 PM
Thanks for this! One of my domain is registered with an Indian registrar, and I mam scared now! Can you tell me any way by which I can change my registrar now!
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Oct 13, 2009 @ 11:15 PM
@Tech-Freak Stuff,
Well. I am really worried with the way many of you all understood from this article. I didn’t tell that all cheap domain resellers are bad. Some of them are bad and it is good to research before purchasing anything from them.
Don’t get worried with your India domain registrar. There are plenty of good Indian domain registrars and I am having some domains with Indian domain registrars. If you still have doubt, kindly contact me with your domain registrar detail so that I can conduct a detailed research about your domain registrar.
Oct 14, 2009 @ 11:40 PM
My domain registrar is Indialinks.com Please give me information weather it is a good one or bad!
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Oct 17, 2009 @ 2:22 PM
@Tech-Freak Stuff,
Indialinks.com is doing good and there is no big problem with them. So don’t worry.
Oct 17, 2009 @ 12:49 PM
Nice point here. The common problem faced with such domain registrar are if your domain become popular, you might get into Domain scam .. Like in first comment I also recommend Name cheap and Godaddy.. Personally I suggest Namecheap to my readers….
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Oct 17, 2009 @ 3:00 PM
@Harsh Agrawal,
Well said. There are some domain resellers who are purposely doing the domain scam. Meanwhile, I too recommend NameCheap to all of my friends because of their wonderful support.
Oct 18, 2009 @ 10:24 PM
hi sir,
i dont think that all the web providers will do these idot things, but i will agree with you that most of the webhosting Companies will do these mistakes
Oct 18, 2009 @ 10:40 PM
@str,
Glad to see you here. Thanks for seconding my view. I was a victim of these offenses and hence this article was written.
Meanwhile, you can call me as Karthikeyan instead of Sir.
Oct 21, 2009 @ 7:03 PM
You are absolutely right Karthik.I faced the same problem with Indian Domain Registrar but now I registered my domain with GoDaddy.com . Let’s see the future result..
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Oct 21, 2009 @ 7:22 PM
@Surender Sharma,
That’s bad to hear that you too have faced such a problem. We should be careful when purchasing anything from anyone.
Nov 14, 2009 @ 3:47 PM
Absolute concern! I am using a not-so-reputed domain registrar right now. Since he is also a good friend of mine, I hope that above issues won’t happen.
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Nov 15, 2009 @ 11:31 PM
@TechChunks,
Glad to see you here. As you have said, we don’t have any problem if we know the registrar really.
Nov 18, 2009 @ 11:11 PM
one has to choose top level domain registrars to register domains.. I prefer godaddy for all domains..
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Nov 20, 2009 @ 10:39 PM
@Rajesh Kanuri,
Yes yes. Godaddy is most preferable for many guys like you.