If you, plan to / already own a domain on which you are building an online commercial enterprise, then you definitely would not want to risk your business. An online business should be treated and built just as any other offline business. Without seriousness and dedication seldom anyone is likely to succeed.
Today, let us analyze and seek the best solution for the problems one might encounter when starting an online enterprise. Registering a “Domain Name” is the whole process starts with, so let us looking into various issues or risks that hover around registering a domain name:
Let us look at how to ensure password security:
Most of the domain registration companies give complete administration access to the respective domain owners through a user interface usually called a control panel. Control panel is a simple to use yet extremely effective tool. You need to safe guard the access to Control Panel from the external world, as the most important part of your business, your data, is accessible through it.
Start with setting difficult passwords, which are hard to guess. Remember that your password should be stored up there in your head and not written down on a piece of paper or in a diary. You could be open to attacks by keeping password easily guessable say for example if you keep your date of birth as your password it’s pretty much a cake walk to guess it out, well I’m sure there are bots which can do this work for most hackers.
Don’t reveal it to anybody other than those who have to access the domain. Even your closest friends and family should be kept away from this. To keep the password as cryptic and as difficult to guess as possible, you can use some of the free password generation tools available from the internet. This way you make it difficult for hackers to gain access to your domain.
Most importantly change password regularly, say every once in a fortnight is a very good habit, or at least once a month.
Go with domain registrars who “lock” your domain status:
In the past, there were several domain registration companies that would permit clients to modify/furnish domain details by a simple procedure of faxing details on the domains official letterhead. This is a great security risk because anybody can prepare a fake letterhead and get access to the domain password and other details. This will give the hackers complete control over the website content, e-mail communication and unhindered access to make changes in your website including transferring the domain to a totally different client.