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How to Recover a Domain Registered Under Someone Else's Name?

How to Recover a Domain Registered Under Someone Else's Name?

It is one of the most stressful things a business owner can discover: the domain your website and email depend on is not actually registered to you.

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Who Really Owns Your Domain: Registrant vs. Admin vs. Technical Contact

Who Really Owns Your Domain: Registrant vs. Admin vs. Technical Contact

Ask a small business owner who owns their domain and they will usually say "we do." Ask them to prove it, and things get murky. The domain might have

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What Is WHOIS Privacy Protection, and Do You Need It?

What Is WHOIS Privacy Protection, and Do You Need It?

The moment you register a domain, your registrar records your name, address, phone number, and email address. For many years, all of that was publish

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What Is RDAP, and How Is It Replacing WHOIS?

What Is RDAP, and How Is It Replacing WHOIS?

For decades, the answer to "who registered this domain?" came from WHOIS, a plain-text protocol that predates the web. It worked, but every server fo

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What Is WHOIS, and How Do You Look Up Domain Ownership?

What Is WHOIS, and How Do You Look Up Domain Ownership?

Sooner or later, almost everyone who works with websites needs to answer a simple question: who owns this domain? Maybe you want to buy a name that i

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Hyphens and Numbers in Domain Names: Good or Bad Idea?

Hyphens and Numbers in Domain Names: Good or Bad Idea?

Your perfect domain is taken, but the registrar cheerfully suggests best-coffee-shop.com or coffee4u.com instead. Both are available, both are ch

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