Business owners regularly receive official-looking emails and letters about their domain or website. Many are scams.
Common scams
- Fake renewal invoices: asking you to “renew” your domain with an unknown company.
- Domain registration offers: claiming someone wants to register your name in another country and you must buy it urgently.
- SEO listing invoices: payment for “search engine submission”.
- Phishing: fake hosting or Google emails asking you to log in.
- Fake “Google partner” calls promising first-page rankings.
How to protect yourself
- Know who your registrar and host are.
- Renew only by logging into your registrar directly, not via email links.
- Check the actual domain in any link; break it down with our URL parser.
- Turn on auto-renew and two-factor authentication.
- Ask your developer or a trusted adviser before paying unfamiliar invoices.
Keep records
Document registrar, hosting and renewal dates in one place. Read website documentation.
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