Comments on: The Perils Of Not Owning Your Domain Name http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/12/the-perils-of-not-owning-your-domain-name.html Art Marketing Secrets To Turn Your Artist Website into a 21st Century Art Marketing Machine Wed, 16 May 2012 00:01:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tanya Mikaela http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/12/the-perils-of-not-owning-your-domain-name.html/comment-page-1#comment-530 Tanya Mikaela Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:21:06 +0000 http://artmarketingsecrets.com/?p=1368#comment-530 This is so true, and it happened to me with my interior design business. We had a company build a site for us and also secure a domain name in the process. The site was our company name, which was a combination of my partners and my name. Well, our domain expired without our knowledge and was purchased by a company in India who wanted to sell it back to us for a ridiculous price. Even worse, when we did not buy it back it wound up in the hands of a very "interesting" porn site (that's classy!). We wound up hyphening our name and buying a new domain with the hyphen...then we had to change all our promotional info and do mass mailers to all our many years of contacts. We also had many calls from confused people telling us that our site was a porn site...yeah, that spiced things up! Enough said. Definately get your own domain. It is really easy and inexpensive to do. This is so true, and it happened to me with my interior design business. We had a company build a site for us and also secure a domain name in the process. The site was our company name, which was a combination of my partners and my name. Well, our domain expired without our knowledge and was purchased by a company in India who wanted to sell it back to us for a ridiculous price. Even worse, when we did not buy it back it wound up in the hands of a very "interesting" porn site (that's classy!).

We wound up hyphening our name and buying a new domain with the hyphen…then we had to change all our promotional info and do mass mailers to all our many years of contacts. We also had many calls from confused people telling us that our site was a porn site…yeah, that spiced things up! Enough said. Definately get your own domain. It is really easy and inexpensive to do.

]]> By: Daniel http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/12/the-perils-of-not-owning-your-domain-name.html/comment-page-1#comment-525 Daniel Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:20:23 +0000 http://artmarketingsecrets.com/?p=1368#comment-525 Good point Moshe. Depending on your webhost you might also be able to have them perform an automated weekly or daily backup to a remote server that you own. That's something we just started to offer at Beautiful Artist Websites. Daniel. Good point Moshe. Depending on your webhost you might also be able to have them perform an automated weekly or daily backup to a remote server that you own. That's something we just started to offer at Beautiful Artist Websites.

Daniel.

]]> By: Moshe Mikanovsky http://artmarketingsecrets.com/2009/12/the-perils-of-not-owning-your-domain-name.html/comment-page-1#comment-523 Moshe Mikanovsky Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:54 +0000 http://artmarketingsecrets.com/?p=1368#comment-523 Excellent advise! Another thing to remember is to have backups of the site, and if its hosted by an hosting company, try to get copies of the backups on regular basis. This way if they go down, you still have a copy and can import it to any other host, retaining with your domain name also all the relative links and URLs to all pages. Not all sites are built the same, so a backup might be complicated for them to do, but it might be something worth asking for when starting with a host company. Cheers Moshe Excellent advise!

Another thing to remember is to have backups of the site, and if its hosted by an hosting company, try to get copies of the backups on regular basis.

This way if they go down, you still have a copy and can import it to any other host, retaining with your domain name also all the relative links and URLs to all pages.

Not all sites are built the same, so a backup might be complicated for them to do, but it might be something worth asking for when starting with a host company.

Cheers

Moshe

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