domainscams

Just a heads up to beware of emails coming to your inbox telling you your domain is expiring and asking for you to renew. 99% of these are scams. They also arrive in your physical mail—just because the information is printed on real paper, doesn't make it real!

Do yourself a favor and find out where you bought your website's domain name. If you're not sure you can do this:

1. Go here: https://www.whois.com/whois/ and type in your domain name.

2. You'll see page like the one shown here. The registrar is where you bought your domain. Sometimes the name won't be familiar, for instance, I originally bought my domain at enom and now it is called "Hover" - so you might have to type the registrar listed in Google to find out their more common, current name.  You can also see when you're expiring for real.

3. If this is who you pay once a year for yearly domain renewal, you're done! If you're paying someone else, you've been paying a scammer. 

Check into all this and never be duped!