Comments on: Don’t Lose Your Business Through Poor Admin

By: Mart

Mart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:09:17 +0000

I don’t think the situation is quite so bad.

We’ve had customers call us that their hosting is down and we soon find its because they haven’t renewed their domain.

From this point you have at least one month to sort it out. So yes, there is a problem with disruption to the website and possible knock on to SEO in the shorter term – but you’ve got to try really hard to actually lose the domain.

Even where customers have lost their login details etc we’ve generally found that they can contact the registrar and prove ownership (even if it just means uploading a specified document to the webspace).

By: Riverwire

Riverwire — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:31:50 +0000

Great Post OWG and couldn’t agree more, ive actually lost a domain in the same way although on not such a grand scale it was still disappointing , on the other hand ive recently acquired a domain because of that very reason so i suppose Karma is with me

By: David

David — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:41:08 +0000

That has got to be one of the worst things that could happen. Also thanks for the reminder, I have one on the drop in 2 days – a juicy beast too.

Think its your own fault if you loose it though. You should manage your domains yourself, not have a web designer do it.

I have all mine at GoDaddy. Get warnings. Just have to make sure you take action

By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:08:01 +0000

Such a wake up call OWG. I woke up one day to find my site down and after hours of hair pulling and sending rude emails to my host company it turned out I hadn’t informed them when I changed my email address, so I didn’t get the renewal emails woops.

By: Spock

Spock — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:15:46 +0000

I have a reseller account with a hosting company and have many business clients’ sites on there so it’s always a worry that said hosts will go kaput! You would hope they would give you warning but you never know (

By: Mubin

Mubin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:53:06 +0000

I read that thread as well and have had a hard time believing the op, if the domain was really 20 years old that would mean it was regged in 1988. Do you really believe that?

By: Essex Weddings

Essex Weddings — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:24:50 +0000

Hi Welsh,

Just stumbled into your blog from your signature on the forum. This article hit a cord as it’s similar to the issue that I queried on the forum earlier today.
I totally agree with your comments, a lot of businesses (including the one I was discussing) don’t realise how much their domain is worth to their company.
The 1st response from my friend was to ask me if I could just start a new .com for them and tell their old webmaster where to go, but I explained it would be a disaster to lose their current domain that ranks so well after being online for 8 years and having several good backlinks.

Your domain name may only cost a fiver or so, but once you’ve been using it online for a few years it’s worth so much more.

Love the blog by the way – I’ll be back to read more SEO advice !