CyberGnarus LLC
You're already aware just how important your domain name is to your business. Losing it can cost you a lot in the form of headaches, time, and of course, money. This issue deals with other ways that uninformed business owners can be parted with their money.
SUDOKU CHALLENGE:
Just when you thought you were comfortable with your domain name - you know you own it, you know who your domain name registrar is - you receive an email from someone warning you that some unnamed company is trying to register YOUR domain name with a litany of extensions (like yourname.cn, yourname.com.cn, yourname.asia, yourname.tw, etc.). The sender of the email implores you to contact them right away so they can help you save your company's name and trademark domain name.
Or, you receive a phone call from someone urgently insisting that unless you purchase these domain names - with your domain name root - from them immediately, an unknown third party is going to register them.
Should you buy the names to protect your business?
QUICK TIPS - MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES
Do you have more than one email address? I have several on my business domains, one from my original ISP, another from Verizon, and also Gmail and Yahoo. You may not have that many, but once you start accumulating them, checking your mail in multiple places could be time-consuming.
What do do?
TECH TRIVIA
There really is a Wayback Machine! Not the one some of us may remember from the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, but if you visit www.archive.org, type in a domain name to see how it used to look, "way back when". Corollary lesson here: just because something is removed from the Web doesn't mean it goes away completely!