Domain Names–Protect Yours From Drop Catchers
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Imagine you’re the owner of a successful Web site, but when you logon one day all you get is an error message.Or worse yet, the domain name now points to a site full of advertisements. That’s right. You’re out of business.
This happens every day because of a perfectly legitimate process known as “drop catching,” where people quickly snag the domain names owners have let expire and try to resell them or use the links associated with the names, which could be extensive, to create Web sites loaded with advertisements. You can easily avoid becoming a victim of a drop catcher by better understanding how the domain registration system works to protect your domain name.
Your Web site, with all the content you have so painstakingly added, sits on a computer with a unique address called an IP address, which is simply a series of numbers. A domain name is an address forwarding service that directs visitors to the site using this IP address. Domain names are used instead of numbers because most people find it easier to remember a name rather than a bunch of numbers. It’s as if you could dial your friend’s name into the telephone instead of his phone number.
You can purchase a domain name by registering it with a provider of domain services such as GoDaddy.com, the largest on the Web, or any number of other registrars.
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