Wiley Website Design and Development: 100 Questions to Ask Before Building a Website 978-0-470-88952-7 User Manual
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D O M A I N N A M E S
a site like domaintools.com. You can fi nd out the registrar and whether
you’re listed as the domain registrant. If your e-mail is listed properly,
you can use the registrar’s lost password function to gain access.
If you’re not listed as the registrant, contact the company or person
who registered on your behalf and get the login information from them;
then go in and change the registrant information to your own. If the
domain is one of many in the other party’s domain manager, simply
sign up with the same registrar and initiate a domain transfer (or if you
already have a domain manager, start the transfer).
If you’re not listed as the registrant and the existing registrant won’t
give you the login information or do a transfer, start by contacting the
registrar with proof that you hired that company or person to register
the domain name on your behalf. Aft er that there are varying types of
dispute resolution depending on the agency overseeing the TLD.
Your domain manage-
ment login is completely
separate from your host-
ing control panel login.
Remember that your
domain name is not the
same as your website—
the domain tells the
world which server has
your website fi les. Make
sure the login data for
your domain and your
hosting control panel are
different.
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Related Questions
4. Do you know what makes a good domain registrar?
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96. Will you routinely check your contact information?
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98. Will your site administration be securely accessed?
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Action Items
If you don’t have a domain name yet, registration is very easy to do yourself. You can get some-
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one to help you later with correctly pointing the domain at the server, and then change the
password when they’re done.
If someone else is going to register your domain for you, clarify in whose name it’s being regis-
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tered. Make sure it’s yours. Also, make sure they’re paying a good price.
If you already have a domain name registered, but didn’t do it yourself, check who is listed as
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the registrant.
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