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Archive for November, 2007

A new client of mine ran into a prob­lem that I have seen too often and thought it would be of inter­est to my readers.

When you hire a web design com­pany it is very impor­tant that you have an under­stand­ing, at the very least. Hav­ing a con­tract in place is much better.

Why?

Well, for one, if you have your web com­pany pur­chase your domain name for you, and arrange your host­ing for you, it is impor­tant that both of these are reg­is­tered to you and not the com­pany that is doing the web work for you.

Now, it is not unusual for a web design com­pany to pur­chase the domain name and arrange host­ing for the client, but the client’s name should be listed as reg­is­ter and the web design com­pany as tech.

In the case of my new client, and oth­ers I have worked with, they come to me for changes, or redesign, of their site only to dis­cover that, in fact, they do not own the domain name, they can­not get any infor­ma­tion on the host­ing and even worse, depend­ing on the com­pany, they have no rights to their web site even though they have paid for it.

If you do not pur­chase your domain name or arrange for your host­ing just make sure that you receive proper doc­u­men­ta­tion so you do not find out, down the road, that you don’t own your web site.

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