You wake up, and your domain name is gone! By Peter M. Abraham You have built up name recognition, search engine recognition (top placements), mailing lists, and more over the years based on your domain name. You are happy with your Web site service seeing at least 99.5% up time or greater ever month throughout the years. One morning you wake up, go to the office, and see telephone messages and some faxes that came over night questioning whether you went out of business. You try to make sense of the confusion.  You visit your own Web site, and it doesn’t come up. The first thing you think is that the hosting provider is having server problems.  You call them, and after going through various checks, double checks, and triple checks you find out the most horrific news you could ever hear for ecommerce, Internet marketing, etc. You are told some one else now owns your domain name! Your face is red; you don’t know what to say.  You want to blame somebody.  How can this be after all these years of paying for the domain name.  Didn’t you pay for two years up front?  Why didn’t the hosting provider notify you?  Why didn’t the name registrar notify you?  How could anyone let this happen to you? You find out from your hosting provider that you are responsible for your domain name because you decided to register it with Verisign (formerly Network Solutions) on your own, or maybe you asked the provider or another party to register it on your behalf. In the time frame you’ve changed email providers, and forgot to update Verisign, and so they emailed your no longer valid email address about renewing.  They may have sent you a notice in the mail, but it got lost with the junk mail; or maybe you moved, and they did not have your new address. The new owner of the domain name is not interested in selling the domain name or they want some absurd price 10 to 100 times what you paid for it over the years.  Like many of the domain names on the market, your domain name didn’t match up with any registered service or trade marks you own, so there is no legal recourse. Even if there was legal recourse, it may take years in court for you to get back the domain name that you’ve established with your customers for email, for marketing, for business, and more. You loose your search engine placements because the engines cannot find your site anymore by the domain name.  All the years and money invested gone. New customers cannot find you.  Existing customers cannot email you.  And the best anyone can tell you is to get a new domain name and start all over. Sad to say we have seen this story in real life over and over again in the past seven and a half years Dynamic Net, Inc. has been in business.  There are safe guards you can take right this moment to protect yourself against loosing one of the most valuable assets you have in the digital market place – your domain name. There are a number of registrants with a personal touch as well as automated safeguards to protect your interests! Dynamic Net, Inc. is one of those domain name registrants.  We have an automated renewal notification system that notifies both of us 90 days, 60 days, 30 days, 10 days, and 5 days before expiration of the domain name. Our, in-house, support personnel personally notify you each of the time frames in addition to the automated notifications. If our personal notification to you does not go through, we will call you on the phone to ensure you are notified that your domain name is about to expire. If you want additional protection, you can ask to be on an auto-renew policy.  We will automatically bill your credit card on file every year within 30 days of the expiration of your domain name, and our systems will automatically renew the domain name for you. Call our business development department now to protect your domain name future.  Call us toll free at 1-888-887-6727 and ask for Jake Winemiller or Peter Abraham.  International customers can call 1-717-484-1062.  You can also email us at