Web Development Archive

Do you own domain names?

If so, can you answer below questions?

• Who is your domain registrar?
• What is your username and password for your domain registrar?
• Do you know how to log in to your own domain account?
• Do you know when your domain name expires?
• Do you know if your contact information is correct on your domain name? (Registrant, Admin, Billing, & Tech Support).

If you said “no” to any of questions above, you should seriously consider paying somebody to take care of your domain names.

You must remember:
Your domain name has expiration date.  A domain name must be renewed or it will expire.  If your domain name expires, somebody else will register it and try to sell it back to you for thousands of Dollars.  I promise, this will happen to you.

Domain name management services:
We manage domain names for our clients, cheap.  Most of our customers leave their domain names to us.  If you have a business to run, it makes sense to pay a small fee and let somebody manage domain names for you.  I am the one who manages domain names for our clients.  I log in to the master domain account every 2 weeks.  I make sure none of the domain names are expiring.  I check expiration dates with accounting department (for billing).  We inform clients when it’s time to renew.

Some customers choose to manage domain names on their own, which is perfectly fine as long as they don’t forget to renew their domain names on time.

If you are going to pay somebody to manage your domain name, get somebody you can trust.   You don’t want to hand in your domain name to a freelancer or a high school kid.  We are a 9 years old professional web design & Internet marketing company here in Ventura County.  I personally look at your domain name every 2 weeks.  And there are other people in my company checking up on my job performance.

Whatever you do, don’t let your domains expire.  If you think you no longer need your domain name?  just renew it for a few years anyway.  May be you will go back to your old business idea and re-start your project.   Domain names are cheap.  Buying back your lost domain names is painful, sometimes impossible.

I was at Burbank Airport.  My airplane was already outside.  That’s when I opened my notebook computer and saw an email from one of our customers.  A client sent us a small web design job.  I was on my vacation, but this job was something I could do very quick.  I didn’t want to bother my co-workers.  My coworkers are better at programming (geeks).  I’m the one who can do web design tasks fast, so…

I started to work on the job with my notebook computer as people started to get on board.  My family members started to call my name.  I was running out of time, but I knew I could pull this off.  Suspense was killing me, but it was fun to work against clock like this.  I felt like I was in a movie, dismantling a bomb.  Finally, the job was completed, I sent an email to the customer, and I shut down my computer.

As I walk through the gate, I checked email with my iPod one last time and saw this message. (pic. below)

I was happy to receive this email.  I felt like I just saved the world with my web design skill.  I told my family members about what I just did.  I told them that my customer was impressed at me.  But, they were too busy getting on the airplane.  They didn’t seem to care. 

I don’t play video games.  Web design is plenty fun.  I seldom work under this kind of time constraint.  And I enjoy that stress.

Anyway, I was satisfied.  It was going to be a cool vacation.  Bing~!

I shot a video with my pocket camera as we were leaving Burbank  (sorry, no audio).