You\u2019ve finally decided to join the rest of cyberspace and set-up a website to begin your e-Commerce venture.\u00a0 Even though you\u2019ve 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.\u00a0 In addition, it\u2019s just as important to take proactive security measures to prevent solicitors to track your every online move following the crumbs of your domain name.<\/p>\n
Domain Privacy 101<\/strong><\/p>\n Regardless of how much time you\u2019ve spent coming up with a domain name for your website, chances are that it\u2019s already been snatched by someone else with a similar related business.\u00a0 It\u2019s 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.\u00a0 Fact: \u00a0First options are rarely available!<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0\u00a0So, always be careful of competitors\u2019 ploys just to make a few extra bucks.<\/p>\n Another issue that many newbie\u2019s 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\u2019s connected with the domain account is viewable in the WHOIS database.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n Personal Domain Security in the Home<\/strong><\/p>\n In today\u2019s Google-ish world, with just a few mouse clicks it\u2019s virtually possible to knock on someone\u2019s front door across the globe.\u00a0 WHOIS search works much the same way as it generates personal names, physical addresses, and occasionally phone numbers based on personal web domain names.\u00a0 Many individuals are acquiring a private domain registration to prevent annoying telemarketers and other unsolicited material.\u00a0 The same is also true for entrepreneurs working from home.<\/p>\n Private domain registration is typically used in households in lieu of businesses ventures.\u00a0 The greatest advantage of private domain registration is to protect your family\u2019s or home-based business\u2019 identity.\u00a0 After the initial registration process of setting-up the domain name, essential personalized data is replaced with \u201cproxy\u201d domain register information.<\/p>\n 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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You\u2019ve finally decided to join the rest of cyberspace and set-up a website to begin your e-Commerce venture.\u00a0 Even though you\u2019ve prepared detailed marketing plans, and a budget analysis to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[138,377,102,140],"class_list":["post-1388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-domain-names","category-security-issues","tag-domain-registration","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-whois"],"views":92,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}