When you register your domain name (www.companyname.com), your name, email address, and physical address become public knowledge unless you pay extra ($2/year) for a private registration. You may receive email notices or letters from websites saying that you need to renew your domain name—typically at a much higher price. These notices may appear to be from your own registrar. You can avoid spam and fraud by (1) finding out where your domain name is registered and (2) privately registering your domain name so your name, email, address is not visible worldwide.

Your actual registrar will send you an email notice once when it is time to renew your name. If your name expires—it is still possible to renew it within a certain time period.
A reputable low cost registrar is www.godaddy.com . You should pay about $10/year or less for your domain name.

Companies that charge high prices to submit your website to hundreds of search engines are not legitimate. Experts in search engine optimization SEO will submit your website to the most important search engines—only a handful of search engines. Ask us if you need help.

A recent scam is that someone else is going to buy your domain name with other extensions e.g. name.asia; name.cn... Keep in mind the most important is name.com and then name.net or name.org .