Domain Administration

Each Domain Registrar has a unique IPS Tag.

• Example: the IPS Tag of Krystal Hosting Ltd is KRYSTAL.

The IPS Tag is useful when you want to transfer your domain away to another Domain Registrar.

The current registrar will ask you for the IPS Tag of the new registrar.

It is a good idea to apply the Domain Lock to secure your domain from being transferred away without your consent.

Remember to unlock the domain before you request a transfer away to another Domain Registrar.

GDPR Protection may have been added to your domain by the Domain Registrar.

If it has then you will need to remove this protection before you can transfer your domain away to another Domain Registrar.

1) Domain Registrars are required by ICANN (the global domain authority) to send automatic renewal and expiry notices to Domain Registrants.

Reminder emails will typically be sent to you:

• 30 days before the expiry date,
• 7 days before the expiry date, and
• immediately after the domain name expires.

2) ICANN also requires Domain Registrars to send Domain Registrants of gTLD domains a WHOIS Data Reminder email.

Purpose: to ensure maintenance of accurate registrant contact details.

3) ICANN requires that Domain Registrars verify the contact details of Domain Registrants within 15 days following:

1. a domain being registered with unverified contact details,
2. a domain being transferred in, or
3. Domain Registrant contact information being modified.

Note: ICANN is the global Domain Registry for Top Level Domains (gTLDs).

You may from time to time receive what look like official Domain Registrar emails.

These could however be phishing emails.

Protect yourself by not clicking on any links in such emails without careful consideration.

If you ever have any doubt about the authenticity of an apparent Domain Registrar email then visit the Client Area of the Domain Registrar's website.

Examples of country level domains (ccTLDs) include:

• .UK,
• .CO.UK and
• .ORG.UK.

ccTLDs are administered by registries around the globe.

The UK registry is called: Nominet.

Examples of generic Top-level Domain names (gTLDs) include:

• .COM,
• .ORG and
• .NET.

gTLDs are administered globally by one Domain Registry: ICANN.

ICANN has a series of very strict policies designed to ensure its registry is kept up to date, resulting in domain registrars being compelled to contact domain registrant:

1. before and immediately after domain expiry date (see Item 1 below),
2. annually to confirm registrant contact details at the registry are up to date (see Item 2 below), and
3. at certain other times (see below).

Low cost domain registration promotions can be tempting but costly over time when you consider that a domain registration or renewal is valid only for a limited period (usually one year).

For this reason we recommend you take time to carefully plan before you begin building a domain portfolio.

Two reasons why you should consider owning additional versions of your brand domain are:

• to prevent cybersquatting associated with your company name;
• to reduce the risk of phishing scams (copies of your website hosted on similar domains) being used by scammers to trick and harvest personal details from website visitors (your customers?).

Cybersquatting is "registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else".

Source: Wikipedia.

Phishing is the "fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication".

Source: Wikipedia.