I agree with clients owning the domain. It's good business continuity practice.
I have clients register the domain, after discussing briefly who they might want to register though. I have them register with a name and password they don't mind sharing with me. If they aren't "capable" of registering it, I still have them do it - whether I walk them through it or wait for their "cousin" to help. This way, in theory you have their credit card information, not vice versa. That said, if any information beyond the last four digits and maybe the expiration is available or visible at any moment, you need to switch registrars anyway. The only risk should be renewing or registering other domains and increasing the charges on the credit card - not the exposure of the full details of that card. If you go crazy on their card registering domains, they can refuse charges and probably press charges. -- Rich Vázquez, CISA, CISSP On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Holly Fortenberry < [email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I agree that I'd prefer to have the domain name registered directly > to the client, just not sure about the best payment procedure to protect my > credit card info. You all are saying to open up the acct. in the clients > name, yet, in doing so, I am paying for it with my own company credit card > but sending client the password to his/her account; so, that means the > client has access to my company credit card info (unless I retype and delete > that cc info each time which I guess I could do even though that's a pain). > It seems as if there should be a better way, other than asking the client to > provide me with their own credit card info. > > Thank you, > Holly > > > > Art Thompson, Jr. wrote: > > Holly, > > I always register domains for my clients unless they specifically state > that this is something they wish to do themselves. This has nothing to do > with squeezing an extra few bucks out of them. > > I register all domains in my clients' names which makes them the "legal > owner, thus avoiding issues down the road. It also means thtat I get renewal > emails--not them, so I don't have to worry about them miissing it and their > site disappearing. > > Hope this helps. > > Art Thompson, Jr. > Logical Things, Inc. > [email protected] > 917-609-1158 [m] > 512-692-9865 [w] > www.LogicalThings.com > www.twitter.com/LogicalThings > www.linkedin.com/in/LogicalThings > > We design, build and deploy branded Microsites, Landing Pages, Blogs, > Eblasts and Whatever Comes Next. > > -- > > On Jun 22, 2010 7:31 PM, "Mark Phillip" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Holly, I always try to avoid it. > > The few dollars you'll save in registration costs isn't worth the pain of > dealing with transferring the domain to the client at a later date. > > > > > Thanks, > Mark > http://markphillip.com > > > > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Brandtley McMinn <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Hey Holly, > >... > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > > -- > Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Refresh Austin" group. > > [ Posting ] > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy > We do not accept job posts from recruiters. > > [ Unsubscribe ] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<refresh-austin%[email protected]> > > [ More Info ] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin > -- Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin
