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by Beth Spencer | July 26th, 2010 |
When you selected the domain name for your practice’s web site, you probably went to a great deal of trouble to purchase a domain name that patients could easily identify with your office. This domain name will help build your web presence and is an important part of your marketing strategy. If you aren’t careful, however, you can actually lose the legal rights and control of your domain name without even realizing that it happened.
With your domain name, you acquired administrative/technical, billing, and legal rights to the web site. Most practices hire a web developer to design and populate their web sites. To build your web site, a web development firm will need control of the administrative side of the web site. Often, the web development group will move your domain over to their server while they are creating your web site. Sometimes, the legal rights to the domain end up getting lost in the shuffle.
Usually, the legal rights to the web site are transferred in one of two ways. Either the web developer inadvertently took over legal rights without realizing it, or the development company took control of the legal rights in an attempt to make it harder for you as the client to leave their firm. In most cases, the transfer doesn’t occur on purpose, but you should be aware that some web development companies use this practice to keep their clients locked in to their contracts.
Unfortunately, resolving an issue with legal ownership can be a difficult, lengthy process. To avoid finding yourself in this situation, keep the following advice in mind:
During the web development process, periodically verify the status of legal ownership. Visit www.whois.com and enter your domain
Tags: domain, legal rights, web developer, website, whois | Category: News
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With over 15 years experience as a professional writer, Beth Spencer brings creativity, vision, and dedication to her professional endeavors. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and English from Indiana University at Bloomington, Beth worked for a publishing company as a production editor, preparing computer textbooks for publication. When she and her husband moved to Dallas for his job, she transitioned into multimedia development and spent eight years in that field. As a project manager and instructional designer, Beth honed her skills in writing and designing content for online media. For the last nine years, Beth has worked as a freelance writer, generating Web content, promotional teasers, marketing materials, non-profit appeals, and support collateral for her various clients. Currently living in Flower Mound, Beth and her husband have two daughters and one son. |
