Domain registration and hosting are not expensive.
Signing up for hosting and domain registration isn’t complicated.
Choose your hosting provider / domain registrar. Find an available domain name, choose an appropriate hosting plan, pay and off you go.
The entire process is fast and automated (unless you chose a domain name that requires manual intervention).
As long as you keep your contact details up to date you won’t have any problems.
But, if you don’t keep them up to date you can end up in a world of pain and potentially lose control of your business’ chosen domain name, hosting and everything else.
Here are a couple of things to keep an eye on:
- Are your account contact details 100% accurate and current? If you used a free email address when you registered your domain and hosting you might not check it regularly and you could miss an important email. You can easily update the email address on your account via your control panel.
- Are your domains’ whois details correct? Make sure the domain is registered to the correct person / entity at all times.
- Concerned about privacy? A lot of registrars offer a whois privacy service for domains.
- Are your payment details accurate? A common issue people encounter is that their credit card expires or is maxed out, so the payment fails
- Make sure you aren’t blocking emails from accounts@blacknight.com and support@blacknight.com – if you’re using a spam filter of some kind add us to your whitelist.
- Make sure to check your spam folders to ensure that you are getting emails from us.
And if you’re going on holidays or not going to be available for a couple of weeks make sure that your hosting and domains are up to date and that they won’t expire while you’re miles away from an internet connection.
(Original image depression teen girl cried lonely isolated on white background from BigStock
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Seriously, making losing a domain name a tragedy worth tears and cause for depression to an individual? Don’t think so. It could be a problem for a company or a business professional…
From the linguistic point of view I do believe that even in English names are written with upper case first letter and a comma between ‘name’ and ‘don’t’ in your tag line would make it easier to read and understand (even grammatically correct? – I’m not an English native so I might be wrong on this one).
I usually like your campaigns very much. They’re smart, funny, to the point. Not this one, I’m afraid. Sorry.
Sorry to hear you feel that way David. I’d fixed up the graphic so any grammar mistake in it would be on my head. Having lost domains in the past and forgetting to renew them I can say I felt rather sad. Yes the image goes to the extreme a little bit but I found it funny as have various other people I’ve shown it to. I guess you simply can’t win with everyone all the time.
I guess you’re right, James. Thousand people equals to thousand different opinions, very often reflecting the mood of the moment. Perhaps, it’s the fact it’s Monday and I just didn’t want to be faced with yet another thing that can go wrong some day 🙂
Blacknight Yes — I agree with you… easy way to avoid it though is to keep your CC details updated 🙂
Matt McLeary the payment is one thing – a more common issue is that the emails are going to a dormant / dead email address so they aren’t seen
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