Use Correct Domain Registration Methods

One of the worst things you can do as a business that no one has ever heard of is to register your domain name incorrectly. Here’s a great example. One of the first things I do when I do business with someone new is look at their website. If it’s shoddy, then I probably am very hesitant to even begin to do business with those individuals. The second is I check the whois records.

There’s a lot of information that you can gather the analysis of both the website and the whois records. The first can tell you if it’s been thrown up in a hurry and if it’s a template site. If it is, no worries, but if both the former (shoddy website) and latter (domain registration) don’t jive, that’s a sign to run very far away before you get taken for a spin.

The whois record shows the registration of the domain and whom is in charge of the business itself from billing to technical to administration. Every major corporation will have their own IT departments in charge of these records and thus the emails will always be from a corporate domain. For example, ibm.com is registered to the corporation and the emails all have ibm.com on the end.


Registrant:
International Business Machines Corporation
New Orchard Road
Armonk, NY 10504
US

INTERNET-SERVER.ZURICH.IBM.COM 195.176.20.204
NS.WATSON.IBM.COM 129.34.20.80
NS.ALMADEN.IBM.COM 198.4.83.35
NS.AUSTIN.IBM.COM 192.35.232.34


That is a huge tell-tale sign that says that someone is a legit owner and knows what they’re doing. If not, then whether or not you’re a legitimate business, you could be stereotyped into the bucket of “scammers and fraud” even before you start your wheeling and dealing. And is that something you really want to do to yourself if you’re trying to create partnerships and sales? Definitely not.

So do the right thing. Register your domains in the right method and keep yourself from having a lot of headache explanations in the future.