There have been many queries about keeping the details regarding the domain private and inaccessible to the Internet users. This service can be availed at a nominal extra cost. You need to ask your domain registrar to keep the information private.

Though, it is necessary for you to provide the personal information to your domain registrar.Once you opt for using private registration, you are enabled of hiding the WHOIS data from viewing by anyone over the internet.

If you are the sole owner of a domain/website, you need to post ownership information which can be accessed by users using WHOIS lookup. But, if you choose for ID Protection service, your data would not be displayed over the Internet. You can filter the contacts for whom you wish to make the information of your domain accessible. This service helps to stay away from unwanted disturbances such as phone calls and E-mail Spams. With the ever increasing number of spam and online threats, these services have been a priority of most of the individuals. There are multiple softwares available in the market that can search the domain registration databases for email addresses and other contact information.

There are several web hosting providers that offer the private domain registration facility. They allow you to register a domain keeping your information private. Ofcourse there is an additional nominal charge to that.

You may have come across certain scenarios when you haven’t shared your e-mail address with anyone or haven’t any online forms on anyof the websites and still receive unwanted E-mails also termed as SPAM’s, in that case most of the miners get this information from WHOIS lookup. You may opt for the private registration service to avoid this from happening in future, this can help you with your privacy issues.

Since you need to supply valid contact information with your domain name registration, it may be worth the extra money to ensure that this information is not used inappropriately.

There have been several cases where site owners were harassed by visitors to their site who found their home phone numbers using a domain search tool. If you are concerned about this , a private registration can be a great way to deal with such occassions.

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What is Domain Transfer?

A domain Transfer is the process of moving of domain from one domain registrar to another domain registrar. Generally when the domain owner are not happy with the existing registrar they choose to transfer the domain, the main reasons may be price, Quality of customer service and ease of use.

Reasons why Domains cannot be transferred.

There are several reasons why the owner may not be able to transfer the domain are:

1.       The domain is in ‘REGISTRAR-LOCK‘ status.
The owner should unlock the domain before continuing the domain transfer.

2.       The domain is newly registered, such newly registered domains cannot be transferred to another domain registrar till 60 days of completion wit the existing domain registrar.

3.       The email id present in the whois directory is not valid. The owner should update the email address in the whois directory by contacting with the existing domain registrar.

4.       The Authorization code for the domain is not been provided yet. The owner should ask for the Auth-code from the current domain registrar.

5.       The domain is expired; still the owner is trying to transfer the domain. If the domain expires before the domain transfer has been initiated, a possibility exist that the domain transfer can be denied even though the owner has submitted an order to transfer the domain before the expiration date of the domain.

6.       The transfer has not been authorized yet. Please check your email for the authorization email.

What is Authorization code?

An Authorization code is the alphanumeric code which adds extra level of security to the domain name registration. This code is unique for each domain name registered and is assigned by the registrar at the time of the domain registration. This ensures that the owner only can transfer the domain

This Code is very important while domain transfer process. This code must be requested from the current domain registrar in order to transfer the domain.

The Authorization code is also referred as Authcode or EPP code. This code is 6 - 16 characters.

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DNS (Domain Name Server) is the next thing after domain registration and web hosting package purchased from a web hosting provider and the websites files are uploaded onto a server. Once all these tasks are completed it takes time for the DNS to get propagated.

There has been a common question raised by most of the clients when DNS propagation is executed. But, before explaining about DNS propagation, it is important to get yourself educated about how DNS works. When a website is set-up on the server of a web hosting provider, a Master DNS record is created in the Domain Name Server (DNS). The Domain Registrar points to your web hosting providers DNS server as they are the master authority of your domain. When a visitor is in search of some information/service/product that is available on your website, the request first of-all goes to the registration database to find out who the DNS authority is for your website. Then getting information from there it points to your hosting providers DNS servers to get information of IP address assigned to your web site. This way the visitor is in a position to view your website.

The problem in this complete procedure is that, in order to fasten the rate at which the visitor can view the Internet, every ISP(Internet Service Provider) caches their DNS records. With this it means that they make their own copy of master records. And hence read from them locally instead of looking from the Internet everytime a visitor wants to view your website. This method is used to improve the speed of internet surfing.

Each company or ISP who caches the DNS records updates them after every few days, henceforth, delaying the time taken by your website to be viewed by others over the Internet. There isn’t any standard interval set by web hosts, they can set the time between some hours to many days. This slow updation of servers cache is known as propagation, as your websites information of the DNS gets propagated across all the DNS servers over the web. As the cache time is different for all the severs, it may take anywhere between 24 to 48 hours maximum (at ideal conditions) for the DNS changes to be applied.

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