Watch Video: What can you learn from Prince about owning your domain name?

You could be in a serious Hostage Website Crisis – and in for a hair pulling out experience if you don’t own your own website name. In this video we’re going to talk about how you find out if you own your website name and why would it matter.

Why should you own your website name? Is it registered in your name or someone else’s?
Remember the artist “formerly known as Prince” and then he became a symbol? That was a fun marketing ploy but it was also because the Record Label owned his actual name for the sake of producing must! Who owns your domain name? You? If you don’t there may come a time when you need to own it. Say you want to stop paying exorbitant fees to some guys whose doing close to nothing with your site. You may want to build a new one with someone else, or build your own site. In any event if you don’t own the name you’ll end up pleading, writing emails, begging, following bread crumbs to his house the woods, or you could be stuck in a big company’s never ending automated system where you don’t even know who built your site. All your stationary and business cards have your website name on it… you might want to know who is the Registrar How do you find out who owns the registration for your name? http://www.whois.net/ and see exactly who has your name registered. Once you have control of your own web presence this kind of Hostage Website Crisis can never happen to you again! Plus you’ll probably be saving a ton of money owning your Registration and Hosting!
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