http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:13:58 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-11060 no n Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:06:35 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html#comment-11060 i dont hink it matters since http://www.icann.org/ holds all the marbles i dont hink it matters since http://www.icann.org/ holds all the marbles

]]> http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-11059 Explorer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:34:29 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html#comment-11059 when you buy a domain name it is registered so no one else can use it. If your company does go bellyup you lose everything on the website except your domain name you can look at http://networksolutions.com/whois to see when your domain name expire. Just go somewhere to renew before expire when you buy a domain name it is registered so no one else can use it. If your company does go bellyup you lose everything on the website except your domain name
you can look at http://networksolutions.com/whois to see when your domain name expire. Just go somewhere to renew before expire

]]> http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-11058 Dave Zan Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:36:08 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html#comment-11058 This is going to be lengthly, so bear with me. ICANN (icann.org) has a process to transfer management of domain names of a defunct registrar to another. Think of it like a bank taking over a defunct bank's accounts. The catch here, though, is if the defunct registrar will cooperate. If the registrar didn't send commands to "lock up" domain names registered with them, some of them risk being deleted due to non-payment. Bottom line, it depends on how soon intervention of the relevant parties kick in. The sooner, the better. The "top" 3 registrars (Go Daddy, Enom/Bulkregister, Network Solutions) are in little to no danger of going bankrupt or stopping operations at all. The 1st has various competent people managing the business (and have little to no plans of selling thanks to their boss) while the other 2 have been acquired by venture capital firms. Then there's the question, of course, of whether you registered your domain name with a REAL domain registrar or a RESELLER for one. If the latter goes bellyup, the registrar might have its own process of moving domain names from that reseller account to another upon review of all available details. This is going to be lengthly, so bear with me.
ICANN (icann.org) has a process to transfer management of domain names of a defunct registrar to another. Think of it like a bank taking over a defunct bank’s accounts.
The catch here, though, is if the defunct registrar will cooperate. If the registrar didn’t send commands to “lock up” domain names registered with them, some of them risk being deleted due to non-payment.
Bottom line, it depends on how soon intervention of the relevant parties kick in. The sooner, the better.
The “top” 3 registrars (Go Daddy, Enom/Bulkregister, Network Solutions) are in little to no danger of going bankrupt or stopping operations at all. The 1st has various competent people managing the business (and have little to no plans of selling thanks to their boss) while the other 2 have been acquired by venture capital firms.
Then there’s the question, of course, of whether you registered your domain name with a REAL domain registrar or a RESELLER for one. If the latter goes bellyup, the registrar might have its own process of moving domain names from that reseller account to another upon review of all available details.

]]> http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-11057 bsmith13 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:51:44 +0000 http://www.savagehost.com/what-happens-to-my-domain-name-if-the-registrar-goes-belly-up.html#comment-11057 if it goes belly up your domain names will be up for grabs if it goes belly up your domain names will be up for grabs

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