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Your DOMAIN NAME is the LIFELINE of your WEBSITE - Protect Your Name! You are the owner of your domain name. Therefore, it's in your best interest to ensure your contact information is CORRECT through your Registrar. Chances are, you've invested a significant amount of time and money in marketing your domain name to the consumer. Regardless of the investment, the unfortunate fact is that your domain name can be lost to people who track its expiration date and register it for themselves the moment the name expires and the grace period elapses. Your website and your domain name are two separate entities. Your website design and hosting contract is through Advanced Access. We helped you set up your design and at the time, you chose a domain name that is attached to your website. Although we may have registered your domain name as a service, it remains in YOUR name for your own protection. Therefore your domain expiration and your website hosting expiration will most likely be different. This is necessary to ensure the ownership of your domain is in your own name. Although we make every effort to monitor our clients' domain expiration dates, the fact is that each domain registration company has different reporting standards for renewals. Due to many outside factors, we are not always aware of your domain name expiration date and cannot guarantee that we will notify you when it's time to renew. Many of our clients report that they never received an invoice for renewing their domain name. Although most registrars send out invoices 30 days before the expiration, addresses can change and mail can be lost. Many registrars also e-mail you your invoice; however, if your contact information is not up-to-date your invoice will be lost in cyberspace as well. Most domain registrars offer a grace period after the expiration date; however, if your domain name is not renewed it can result in your domain name being lost to another party. Know your Domain Name Expiration Date It's more important than ever to be aware of the date your domain expires. Here's how to find out your expiration date. Visit any of the domain registration websites, but for this example, let's use Network Solutions. Network Solutions website address is www.netsol.com. Click on the "Whois" section of the site (upper right corner) and enter in your domain name. You can look up the ownership information for any domain name here, and find out the date your own domain expires. Please make a note of your domain name expiration date for future reference. In most cases, your domain was originally registered for one or two years. If you have any trouble finding out the information about your domain name, simply call our Customer Support Department toll free at 866-518-1571 or e-mail us and ask them to look up the information for you. Very recently, to prevent cybersquatters from re-registering your domain name immediately after its expiration date, VeriSign - parent company of Network Solutions, implemented a new program that allows you to "redeem" your domain names within 30 days after its expiration period. In the new program, Verisign will "hold" your domain name for 30 days after it expires and prevent anyone else from re-registering it upon expiration. Once your domain name has entered into this "REDEMPTIONPERIOD" status it is only possible to have your domain name released back to you by paying a fee. Oddly, this fee seems to be different from one domain name registration company to the next. We've seen the fee as low as $100.00 (this seems to be the norm), which doesn't include your renewal fee, but companies such as Register.com are actually charging upwards of $235.00 ($200 restoration service fee plus $35 for one year renewal) when your domain name is in the "REDEMPTIONPERIOD" status. What does this mean to you? With Verisign's new program, it is less likely that your domain name will be stolen by a cybersquatter. However, if you don't renew your domain on time, it will cost you! Unless you want to pay a $100.00 (or MORE!) fee for releasing the hold on your domain name, be sure that you renew it before the expiration date. If you don't receive an invoice before the expiration date, you can either (a) renew your domain name directly online with a credit card on the registrars' secure server, or (b) contact our Customer Support Department and we will be happy to renew your domain name for you. As always, we are committed to your success on the Internet and are pleased to serve you in any capacity with regard to the renewal of your domain name.
We are being inundated with requests to be featured on the Weekly Marketing Tips, which adds your name to our Link Popularity Update page. To allow you to be listed as soon as possible, each week we will feature FIVE new websites that offer reciprocal links. If you are an Advanced Access client and you have created a form to be filled out on your website, please remember to filter out your contacts on the form so it does not import into your weekly Intellicards Address book! Here's how to set up your filter: First, login to your Virtual Office Please make sure you create a separate address book into which you can filter these requests. If you keep your Link Popularity list on the 'Default' address book, all of your link partners will then be added to your Intellicards Campaign List. If you do not have a choice in the pull down, you should go to your Intellicards Address Book section and create a new address book. A suggested name for your new address book could be 'Link Partners'. |
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Read the following from real estate professionals who are using Advanced Access' Marketing Tips to their advantage: "We just want to say how PLEASED we are with the new site. The features are well thought out, and versatile. The Virtual Office is easy to use, and has a lot of options to make our site unique. We think the rest of your current Advanced Access members and your future clients will appreciate your hard work!" Thank you! Fran and Rowena "A dream come true! Advanced Access has listened to the feedback from its most prolific users and fulfilled a fantastic wish list. The new Classic 3.0 lets us customize slide shows, banners, colors and more! What a terrific opportunity to be able to have complete control of the look and feel of your website and still have the fantastic support that Advanced Access offers! Thanks AA!" Kristin Noll
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