How safe is my domain name?

Bought through my host

[dazz]

Ive registered a domain name and its doing fantastic at the moment in all areas for our company, I registered it with a UK company who also host our site. When the domain name is due to expire is there any chance someone can pinch it or will i always have it as long as i pay when they ask for it to be re registered. I paid £30 for 2 years and it has a year left to run.

[AkanDian rain]

As long as the money keeps flowing from your pockets, the domain is all yours. You may want to double check netsol.com's WhoIs to make sure all the registration information is correct since your hosting company handled that.

[Omni]

If I were you I would get a new registrar and handle the name myself - if you value your name.

[dazz]

I do value my name but i just checked on the WhoIs and the Registrant: is me with my company as the address....the Administrative Contact: address is the company i registered it through and who hosts my site. Soooo am i ok?

[Slade]

Moderately ok... Any changes that get sent through about your account *should* be carbon copied to your email, but they still have control over it.

Pretty much, as long as they control either the domain account, or the nameservers they *could* screw you.

You can transfer the domain away from them, but unless you sign up for DNS service somewhere they can still point your site to /dev/null or a p o r n site, if they so choose.

Do you trust them? Do you owe them money? Why would they screw you?

edit: it's just a matter of how paranoid you are?

PS: did you see someone over there?

[Marcia]

I don't trust anyone as far as domain names are concerned. Get yourself changed to Admin contact so you have full control - with an email address you are in charge of, and where renewal notices go to you. And keep the email info up to date. Some people I know lost their domain names because the host's email was down and they had no idea. Some poachers grabbed it right away.

[Omni]

Marcia said it right