{"id":232,"date":"2011-12-07T17:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-12-07T18:01:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T02:01:11","slug":"domain-registry-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/domain-registry-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Domain Registry of America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many of my clients have received, or will receive via mail an official looking \u201cbill\u201d from Domain Registry of America. This sounds like a domain\u00a0renewal.\u00a0Since the expiration date(s) is\/are accurate \u2013 it looks legit.<\/p>\n

What this really is offering is having you switch your registrant to Domain Registry of America, though that doesn\u2019t really catch your eye. (It didn\u2019t catch mine the first time I saw this.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0This is a transfer which has to be initiated by the domain registrant and monitoring to make sure each step is taken: unlocking your domain, etc. There is a time frame for this – if you miss a step, you begin again. It’s not something you want to do, but IF you decide to transfer you can typically get one year free and subsequent \"\"<\/a>years discounted, or some offer which makes it worth the trouble – IF you’re handling this yourself.<\/p>\n

Your domain renewal\u00a0will come\u00a0via an email.\u00a0 You’ll get plenty of advance notice, as long as it isn’t getting snagged by your spam filter. And you’ll hear from most companies throughout the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I know these Internet related things can be confusing and this company is making a nice profit from confusion.\u00a0It is also frustrating to think you have taken care of your domain, to find out it really will expire.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is what this “bill” looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of my clients have received, or will receive via mail an official looking \u201cbill\u201d from Domain Registry of America. This sounds like a domain\u00a0renewal.\u00a0Since the expiration date(s) is\/are accurate \u2013 it looks legit. What this really is offering is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,139,141],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smallbusinesswebsite","tag-domain-registration","tag-domain-registry-of-america","tag-domain-renewal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}