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With almost everything bad that can happen to you, people tend to be of the mindset that “it can’t happen to them” and those are the very same people that go posting like mad when it does happen to them. So let me save you some headache and stress and just tell you right here and now ………
IT CAN AND WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. IT’S JUST A MATTER OF WHEN!
What am I going on about? Well it’s about theft. No, not identity theft that you hear about on TV all to often, but domain name theft. The experts say that 1 out of 3 people in the U.S. will fall victim to some sort of identity theft in their lifetime. I would venture to say that a good half of those fall victim because they do stupid stuff like click on links to phising sites that they get via email.
Now before you get all smug and think you are above all of this … that you would never do anything that stupid …. well let me tell you a good number of adult webmasters do something just as stupid every single day and that is they use a free email service such as Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail for their domain name accounts.
Free email accounts are great because they are free, but they are also vulnerable to attacks, hackings and exploits that normal email accounts don’t tend to be. This means that you are putting all of your domain name account information at risk of being exposed and that means you are making it easy for a domain name hijacker to steal your domain names and there is every chance in the world that once they are gone, you can’t get them back.
The domain name message boards are full of guys flipping out because they lost their domain names this way and they are quick to blame the registrars like GoDaddy when in reality they only have themselves to blame.
So what can you do to keep your accounts protected? Keep the email address that you use for your domain name account secret. Don’t use it anywhere else except for your domain names and don’t let it be one of those free email accounts like Yahoo email, Hotmail or Gmail. Make sure the password on that email account is very hard to guess. Don’t use a word from the dictionary and always use a combination of letters and numbers. The password should be a minimum of 8 characters long as well. monitor this email address closely and you will have improved the security of your domain name account ten fold.
