Domain Name Theft & Safety Measures

Cases of Internet domain name theft has swept the World Wide Web. This upsurge in domain theft news has proven that your domain name is not as safe as you expected it to be. There are a number of common mistakes that we do and as a result domain theft takes place. However, there are some safety measures, which if followed prudently, can help you keep your domain name safe and secure. You must be wondering about the reason for the reducing list of your web visitors and the low search engine results that your website is showing these days. There is quite a possibility that your website has been hacked and that your web visitors have been stolen by someone on the web. It may happen that your domain name gets featured in the high search engine results and visitors click on the same too but get directed to an absolutely anonymous website that comprises of the same URL as yours but is entirely different from your business goals and services. With the penetration of Internet in our day-to-day life, technology has been put to a great misuse. There has been witnessed a remarkable upsurge in the number of hackers in the software domain. These hackers make use of a flaw existing in the software being used by the domain name servers and then send wrong information to these servers thereby compromising with the same and directing the traffic of that URL to a different site altogether. Hence, always get your domain name registered by a good domain name registrar. Currently, many good domain name registrars are there such as GoDaddy, LimeDomains etc. which you can seek help of for getting your domain name hosted on a trusted web server. There are a number of domain name servers that do not ratify that a valid source has signaled the information and as a result, the visitors get mislead and land up on the wrong website, when they enter the URL of your website in the web browser. However, you don’t need to worry much and there are measures that you can resort to in order to save your website against this domain name theft. 1) Get your domain name locked by your registrar: There are quite a many registrars, which follow a sloppy procedure and permit unverified transfers. So make sure that when you get your domain name registered, it gets locked at your registrar and the lock put by the registrar must be visible in WhoIs. Hence, it becomes important to use the services of a good domain name registrar. There are many good domain registrars operating in the market currently such as GoDaddy, LimeDomains(also offers 1-click application hosting solution), Network Solutions etc. 2) Allow restricted access: Your admin email account must be password protected so that it gets accessed only by you and the people you trust. 3) Give correct account information: Always give correct information so that your account is valid and has all correct details for current and future use. 4) Safeguard email from hijacking: Take due care to protect your email account against spam bots by securing a personal domain and use it as your email address rather than using Hotmail, Gmail etc. which are more likely to get hijacked. 5) Buy multiple domain extensions: Buy all top level extensions for your domain name as this would protect your domain name from any theft and your web traffic won’t be misled. 6) Protect your password: Change your passwords on a regular basis to safeguard it from hijacking. 7) Register a trademark: As a safety measure, you must register a trademark for protecting your domain name from theft. 8) Renew your domain name for multiple years: To protect your domain name from expiration, you must register it for multiple years and get it registered for maximum years possible. I hope the safety measures mentioned above would help you in protecting your domain name from theft and contribute in helping you gain a triumphant online presence on the World Wide Web.