With all the thefts that are happening lately I have been asked what is the best way to protect a high profile domain. My first advice is find a registrar that you can trust and keep your whois information updated and make sure every field works (do not use privacy on a high profile domain). If your phone number doesn’t work or your address is the place you lived 4 years ago it will be hard for someone to validate you used to own the domain when it does get stolen. Keep your information current and accurate. For those that are more paranoid and want more assurance my advice would be to get your own ICANN registrar. You will need about $70K in your bank account plus ICANN fees and processing paperwork should take about $10K to complete. So be prepared with $100K if you want a registrar of your own. Your bill each year from ICANN will be about $5,000. If you have a good domain $5,000 is not a lot of money. Set up your own registrar!

For those of you that really want my personal help. Here is the deal. Yes, DomainTools (Name Intelligence) has its own ICANN Registrar and we can protect any domain with a fence so high no one will be able to steal your domain. We can safeguard domains and provide Insurance on them because we would require a high level of contact with the owner before any change would happen. The cell phone number of the owner and a personal call back would be required to verify any change on a domain.

About Eranet
Todaynic.com International Limited(Eranet.com) was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2005, directly under Todaynic.com, Inc. which was established in 2000. As one of the first ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), Verisign, HKDNR, and CNNIC (The China Internet Network Information Center) accredited registrars, Eranet is also a leading provider of services in domain name registration and web hosting.

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