You’ve finally decided to join the rest of cyberspace and set-up a website to begin your e-Commerce venture. Even though you’ve prepared detailed marketing plans, and a budget analysis to track online inventory, the one thing you neglected to spend some serious time considering is choosing a creative website domain name. In addition, it’s just as important to take proactive security measures to prevent solicitors to track your every online move following the crumbs of your domain name.
Domain Privacy 101
Regardless of how much time you’ve spent coming up with a domain name for your website, chances are that it’s already been snatched by someone else with a similar related business. It’s always a wise decision to jot down several domain names that would be appropriate for your website just in case the preferred options are taken. Fact: First options are rarely available!
Competitors are notorious for purchasing related domain names simply for their own personal gains in hopes of tricking potential customers into thinking that they are actually shopping from your website. So, always be careful of competitors’ ploys just to make a few extra bucks.
Another issue that many newbie’s registering website domains fails to realize is that their personal contact is displayed for the entire cyber world to see when your associated domain contact information that’s connected with the domain account is viewable in the WHOIS database. Remember that domain privacy is a feature that may be added on at the time of sign-up for any domain including: com., net, org., info, biz, etc.
Consider privacy protection as a knight in shining amour for those wishing to keep their WHOIS contact information private from potential identity thieves and cyber hackers. The way it works is that specific details of your domain account are substituted with generic information, preventing your personal contact details from being revealed in the WHOIS public database for solicited purposes.
Personal Domain Security in the Home
In today’s Google-ish world, with just a few mouse clicks it’s virtually possible to knock on someone’s front door across the globe. WHOIS search works much the same way as it generates personal names, physical addresses, and occasionally phone numbers based on personal web domain names. Many individuals are acquiring a private domain registration to prevent annoying telemarketers and other unsolicited material. The same is also true for entrepreneurs working from home.
Private domain registration is typically used in households in lieu of businesses ventures. The greatest advantage of private domain registration is to protect your family’s or home-based business’ identity. After the initial registration process of setting-up the domain name, essential personalized data is replaced with “proxy” domain register information.
Whether protecting your personal assets in the office or at home, domain privacy is a security vital tool to prevent cyber hackers from wrecking havoc on your business affairs!
