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The internet and technology has been advancing at a very rapid speed. Every now and then, professionals as well as beginners seem to be attracted towards this field more than any other fields. In this regard, web hosting and domain hosting, to name a few has become quite frequent terms. There are many fraudulent activities going on in this particular field.

Let me share my personal experience with you all.

I own a couple of blogs most of which are hosted in free hosting providers. I have some domains which are registered at namecheap.com the name which is quite popular among web builders and web hosts. When a new domain is to be registered, the domain name must be unique and the domain registration protocols provide few options on the time limit which normally starts from one year.

Now the fraudulence that I encountered was, one of my domains was soon expiring. I normally subscribe a period of one year. Let me bring to your knowledge that, my domain is registered at namecheap.com. The price that I had paid was somewhere around 10 dollars for a year. Before namecheap.com sent me a notification email regarding the expiry, a third party abcmnoxyz.com(assumed name) emails me and asks me to renew my domain before it expires. I would not want my domain to expire so I follow their link to renew my domain. Until that point everything was fine but when it was time for me to transfer the fund, I was shocked to see the price. The price quoted for one year was somewhere around 70 dollars whereas at namecheap.com with that sum, I can own my domain for seven years. This was the point where I got into confusion. Luckily, one of my friend suggested me not to renew the domain in the third party’s place. I should go and renew my domain at that very place where it is registered.

So, this is my suggestion to you all out there, don’t ever renew your domains somewhere else apart from the registrar where you had first registered your domain. When you’re on the verge of losing your valuable domain, the chances of you hurrying to renew your domain are very high and blindly following someone’s link other than the original registrar.
There are many self proclaimed domain registrars and you should be aware of them.