Website Domains. Who Owns it?
Before I give my opinion on this topic, I want to post a little section on an article I read on bushiness week.
“The most common problem is that the Web developer, rather than the business owner, will register the domain name. Other times designers vanish before a site is finished. And a business owner whose expectations are unclear is asking for trouble.
The Council of Better Business Bureaus in Arlington, Va., received 1,971 complaints against Web design outfits in 2006, compared with just 603 in 2003. “The problem is definitely growing,” says Alison Preszler, a BBB spokesperson. “More small businesses realize the need to have a Web presence, so there’s more demand for Web designers. But as more companies enter that market, you’re seeing more that are not on the up and up.
Reading this broke my heart. That is why at WebNet Interactive we stand true to our 110% satisfaction guarantee. If you buy anything from us, it is yours and you own it. We also provide 30 days of free maintenance (on text). That is tough to find in the website design industry.
The advice I could give you is if you do need a website developer, make sure you know the sites that this developer has created and ask for references. Also check to see that the sites that the website designer created are owned by the person or company that the websites were created for, and not by the web developer.