There are important things every site owner should know about domains. These are all best practices I preach regularly.
- Control your own domain registration
- …unless you’re the sort who will forget to renew it even if you get a notice of pending expiration. Then, delegate.
- Register for more than a year, to make having to remember less frequent.
- If you delegate or have a friend holding your domain, make sure they’re reliable.
Domain transfer is a nuisance, but so’s downtime. I got lazy along the way. Ooop.