Protect Your Domains, Says .ORG Registry
The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the entity which manages the .ORG top-level domain name, has launched an awareness campaign dedicated to alerting .ORG owners to the importance of protecting, preserving and renewing their .ORG domains.
About 2,000 .ORG domains expire each day. Protectyour.org outlines five simple domain protection ideas (paraphrased below). These suggestions are basic but useful and certainly apply to all domain owners and domain extensions:
- Make sure that you or an authorized representative of your organization has been named as registrant of the domain. In some rare cases, your webhosting or webdesign company will register your domain in their name to prevent you from moving to a different company in the future.
- Verify and update your administrative contact information regularly. It makes sense to make sure you can be contacted by people who want to alert you to a problem with your domain or website.
- Check that your email contact information is current. Registrars send out notices of upcoming expiration dates by email and if you forget to renew your domain, such an email might be the last resort that prevents you from losing the domain.
- Consolidate your domains at one registrar to simplify management. If you have all your domains in one place you can quickly check expiration dates and renew domains that are going to expire soon.
- Register your domains for the maximum period of time (in the case of .ORG domains that's 10 years). This eliminates the risk of expiration for an extensive amount of time.
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