However, I would be careful about registering a domain for such a long period, especially with some of the lesser known registrars. What happens if you register for ten years and the registrar goes out of business? Will the registrar who picks up the defunct registrar's clients honour the long term registration given thay they will receive no renewal fees for such a long time?
Also, who is to say that domain costs won't fall even further. But then again, they could rise I suppose.
I guess I am saying that such a long registration takes some careful thought.
Onya
Woz
So honouring the longevity of the registration from registrar to registrar is not a problem, but I guess you would still be speculating on the fall or rise of the registration price.
Thanks again Lisa,
Onya
Woz
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The ten years doesn't mean ten years total life for a domain name, it just means you can only renew it ten years into the future.
It took days of phoning to get NetSol to reverse the fraudulent changes.
Cyberjackers invariably put in for a registrar transfer as they know that any fraudulent admin contact change would be reversed by the original registrar as soon as the genuine registrant finds out and complains.
A new registrar is likely to be more sympathetic to the new "registrant" because he (or she) is the one who has just paid them the one year mandatory extension and the new registar has no relationship with the original genuine registrant.
It is impossible to initiate registrar transfers when the domain is at the maximum ten year registration period and so is a very good way of protecting the domain. Some registrars also allow domain "locking" but another attempted cyberjacking of another client's domain a few weeks ago had got as far as persuading OpenSRS (Tucows) to remove the lock and change the admin contact! It was only becuase they cc'd me on the change that I was able to reverse the changes.
