Tips to Help You Protect Your Domain Name
Here are some tips on how you can protect your domain name:
1. First of all, you have to ensure that the information that you will be providing is complete and accurate. It has to be the most current information about you and your domain and that it tells about your ownership and contact information. The more precise it is the better. Also, you should keep your own monitoring and recording of your domain name’s expiration date or dates.
2. Have your domain business plan notarizes and listed so you are sure that it will be protected from theft.
3. It is important that you register your domain name. Furthermore, if possible, make it closely related to your business name so it will be easier to remember and to establish. Registering your domain name will provide you with legal protection even if your domain name gets stolen.
4. Keep a record of all your domain transactions such as domain name design, advertisement transactions, dealings with your service provider, web hosts, and so on to make sure everything is properly accounted for, in case a problem may occur.
5. Have a registrar lock for you domain to ensure that it will not be modified or transferred or become subject to unauthorized activity.
6. Beware of free email accounts and unknown emails sent to you. These may delete your entire account especially if you do not normally log in and gives way to interested domain hijackers to ruin your domain.
7. Don’t just sell your domain in haste. Make sure that the person you are selling to is someone you know and trust, or they may just be spies to trick you out of your domain and not pay you for it.
8. If someone files a complaint against you via WIPO, consult a lawyer before doing action. However, make sure that you are able to reply to the WIPO so that they will know that you are there and that they won’t just side with the complainant.
