Protect Your Identity Register Your Domain Name
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Protecting your identity is very important. Most commonly people see various TV commercial for credit cards and identity theft. What is less common and seems to be becoming a mainstream practice among the dot com world, is people registering the domain names of other’s personal names. For instance, I have owned my personal name domain name for many years. However, about a 3 years ago, I got lazy and forgot to renew my domain name and someone snagged it and offered to sell it to me for over $1000 dollars. I was floored! Anyway, I kept patient about it, put a backorder on the domain… and as it turned out, the previous registrant forgot to renew the name (or didn’t care to) and I got my name back. Garry Conn dot Com, needless to say has been registered for many years… in fact, if you want even a shot at scoring my personal domain name, you will have to wait until year 2016 to even have a slim chance.
If you value your personal name, your children’s names, etc… register their domain name. It typically costs only $9.95 per year to maintain it under your ownership. Even if you’re not a blogger or the computer type… you should still register your personal name domain name to keep it safe from being subjected to registration from lesser choice people.