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I Can't Remember Where I Purchased My Domain Name!

It wasn't until my third client had called asking how to regain control of her domain name that I realized that it was a common problem for small business webmasters to forget where they had registered their domains. WHOIS my registrar? Why didn't I get an email about renewal? Why did my site

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

stop working today?

People rarely realize how important it is to keep their domain registrar notified of changes to their email address and and other contact information. The registrar will send renewal notifications to the email address last on file. For most domain owners, the only time they think about contacting a registrar is the day they rese

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ve their domain name. If they move to a new city and get a new internet service provider, it doesn't occur to them that the old email address will change and that meeans that the registrar can no longer contact them through the previous address, or phone or fax as each of them change and we rarely notify the controller of our domain of those changes.

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

Sometimes the first indication a business owner will have that there is a problem is the day their web site stops working. If they failed to notify their domain registrar of changed email address, they may never have received their domain renewal notice. Since many registrars honor a 30 day "redemption period" allowing expired domains to be redeeme

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

, it may be possible to save the registration within 30 days following expiration by contacting registrars during 30 day domain redemption periods.

The following URL leads to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (AKA ICANN) discussing the grace period and redemption period rules it enforces.

http://www.icann.org/bucharest/redempt

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

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So how does a domain owner find out who their registrar is if they've forgotten? Simple WHOIS inquiries will tell you everything the registrar knows about your domain. Public WHOIS records show the owner's contact email, street address, phone and fax numbers. But that's not all, it also shows the current registrar, DNS servers, the cre

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

tion and expiration dates of the domain name. Here is how to check your WHOIS data. Type the following into your browser address bar:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=google.com

Replace google.com with your domain name and click go. If you don't, you'll see the following contact information:

Administrative Contact:

DNS Admin (NIC-142

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

90820) Google Inc.

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway

Mountain View CA 94043

US

*********@google.com

+1.6506234000

Fax- +1.6506188571

You'll also see the domain servers, which usually includes the host name like so:

Domain servers in listed order:

NS3.GOOGLE.COM

NS4.GOOGLE.COM

NS1.GOOGLE.COM

NS2.GOOGLE.COM

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

his normally shows only two servers (Google is bigger than you.)

So now that you are armed with WHOIS data, you can see:

Who the registrar is. (Hence WHOIS)
Who the Domain Administrative, technical contacts are.
Owner names, addresses, emails, phone and fax numbers.
Domain creation, expiration and "last updated" dates. <

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

li> Domain servers and backup servers.

What do you do if your domain name shows expired and it has stopped working? Do that WHOIS search and contact the listed registrar at their customer support number. They'll ask you to prove who you are by verifying some registration details. If you can't remember access passwords to log in to domain manage

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

ent consoles, they'll often accept faxed copies of your photo ID or a some standard identification proof and reset your username and password to give you access again.

Forgetting to notify your registrar is not the only way to lose control of your domain. There are hundreds of stories of unethical hosting companies, webmasters and even spouses (sinc

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

divorced) holding domain names in the name of a small business because the domain owner was not web savvy and didn't understand how important that domain name signup day was. Keep your registrar name, your log in username, password and domain management URL permanently recorded somewhere with your most important business papers. Don't allow anyone t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

o register your domain name for you if they don't put YOUR name, email address and phone numbers in "Administrative Contact" position during registration.

Some business owners confuse their web host with their internet service provider and further confuse both with the domain registrar. Since many ISP's offer web space, or hosting, and also provide

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

omain registration through their initial signup package, it's not easy to separate the three distinctly different entities. You needn't host with your internet service provider and they're (almost) never your domain registrar. Keep them separate and completely apart in your mind.

Internet service provider. (AT&T, Verizon, SBC Global.)
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
i> Web hosting provider. (Pair Networks, Verio web hosts.)
Domain Registrar. (GoDaddy, Register.com Yahoo Domains.)

When a client recently moved her hosting, she asked me how to make that happen and had no idea how important the details were. We first established a new hosting account, then determined new domain name servers, uploaded h

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

r web files. we made sure that account was live with the new web host, then contacted the domain REGISTRAR to change to the new domain servers in a domain management console.

This same client had nearly told her old web host to close her account before we found out that the registrar had her old, previous email address as "Administrative contact" em

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ail for her domain name. It took two days to straighten that out and make corrections. Her site would have been down for two days if she had shut down her old hosting account as she had planned before speaking with me. She had a new hosting account set up, but failed to realize the importance of the registrar change to DNS server records in the movin

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

scenario.

We then notified the previous host of the change, only AFTER the domain was resolving to the new host so that when the site was turned off at the old host, it was already working at the new host.

Don't be caught by surprise! You can protect your domain name by registering it for the maximum time of ten years and extend it every year to

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

that final, tenth year, rather than waiting for it to near expiration. This will prevent you losing control of the name, but shouldn't mean you can forget your registrar login details or renewal date. How likely is it that you will move, or at least change internet service providers within that ten years? Be sure to keep your registrar apprised of ne

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

email, street address, phone numbers at all times! Especially that all important Administrative contact email. "WHOIS" your domain registrar? Do you have domain name management console login details? Have you extended your registration to ten years? Your business is worth careful domain name management.

Copyright August 31, 2006 Mike Banks Valentin

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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