Stop hijackers of your domain

What would you do if one day you arrive at work, click on your company’s website and discover it’s been replaced by unsavory messaging?

That happened to a Wyoming Better Business Bureau-accredited business some years back, and it continues to happen on a regular basis across the United States and globally.

It’s called domain hijacking, and it works like this: A company fails to register its domain name before it expires. When the registration expires, another entity steps in and purchases it and holds the domain name ransom, demanding payment of thousands of dollars in order to return it. Often the hijacker…