I have several different domain names that I've registered over the past few years and keep paid up.Some are active and related to side businesses, some are redirected and others are just on hold.
One of them is the firstnamelastname of a daughter, who's an artist. I wanted her to have a place to showcase her work and bought the name. It's redirected to her Mac website but is registered in my name. I'm going to transfer to her, now that she's out of school.
This brought to mind a dilemma: the domains are registered in my name, and I'm the one who renews them each year and keeps the records on them. If I were to die unexpectedly, or be rendered incapacitated by stroke or something else (knock wood), what would happen to them? Transferring domains takes time and email verifications etc. I've done it before and it's a lengthy, convoluted process. I guess that's to keep scam transfers to a minimum.
So - if something happened to me, what would happen to all the domain names? I'm thinking it might be better to have them all registered to an LLC or some similar business entity, which could be legally accessible by a few different people, rather than having then just registered to me.
Or am I overthinking this? I tend to do that ...
Should I just keep my list of domains updated and have email password info kept somewhere, like safe deposit box? So my husband or someone else could somehow wind through the transfer labyrinth to transfer the domains and keep the websites active.
Losing websites that are linked to businesses could be a marketing and legal problem. A couple of the names we have registered I know would be valuable to others and would be snatched up quickly if I (or someone) failed to keep the registrations active.
Thx for listening to my paranoia.
One of them is the firstnamelastname of a daughter, who's an artist. I wanted her to have a place to showcase her work and bought the name. It's redirected to her Mac website but is registered in my name. I'm going to transfer to her, now that she's out of school.
This brought to mind a dilemma: the domains are registered in my name, and I'm the one who renews them each year and keeps the records on them. If I were to die unexpectedly, or be rendered incapacitated by stroke or something else (knock wood), what would happen to them? Transferring domains takes time and email verifications etc. I've done it before and it's a lengthy, convoluted process. I guess that's to keep scam transfers to a minimum.
So - if something happened to me, what would happen to all the domain names? I'm thinking it might be better to have them all registered to an LLC or some similar business entity, which could be legally accessible by a few different people, rather than having then just registered to me.
Or am I overthinking this? I tend to do that ...
Should I just keep my list of domains updated and have email password info kept somewhere, like safe deposit box? So my husband or someone else could somehow wind through the transfer labyrinth to transfer the domains and keep the websites active.
Losing websites that are linked to businesses could be a marketing and legal problem. A couple of the names we have registered I know would be valuable to others and would be snatched up quickly if I (or someone) failed to keep the registrations active.
Thx for listening to my paranoia.
