Do you know who manages your domain name registration? You best be careful or you could get screwed around big time! Some advice.. recently I had a really bad experience with a company that handles some of my domain name registrations (luckily its only my personal and secondary stuff.. not all the important ones!!) I renewed 3 domain names and paid the annual fee via credit card, no problemo. Then, low-and-behold, about 2 weeks later the updates hadn’t taken effect. Naturally I’m getting weirded out thinking that I may lose the rights to the domains. So I start contacting the company via the contact form, tech support etc… I do this over and over again and get nothing back, no feedback, nada. So now I’m getting really weirded out and move a couple of the more important domains over to godaddy… luckily the move takes effect. So, I continue to try to get in touch with them to no avail. Naturally, I decide to do the smart thing and I totally flip out on their tech support via email…. really, it was a masterpiece! Their reaction… they yank the freaking plug on all my domains.. yes that’s right.. now none of them are accessible, and get this, they have locked them up so that I can’t transfer any of them… NICE! NEedless to say that I’m pretty much prepared to rip someone’s head off. I’m still battling with them and hearing nothing, thankfully I have a friend who does webhosting for me and also handles domain reg. so he’s slowly having luck getting the names moved but its a real pain. So, let this be a lesson.. use only reputable firms (tucows, godaddy etc…) and NEVER ever use jumpdomain.com – lesson learned! Obviously I’d love to go legal on these guys but it really isn’t a feesible option