Managing Your Domain Name Administrative Contact

Since we have two clients right now having this issue, I thought I’d just give a few, quick tips about buying and registering domain names.
The issue is that each client has a shopping cart or secure (SSL) pages on their site. With that, you need an SSL certificate (along with a dedicated IP address since you can’t run multiple domains off the same port 443 – but now I’m getting off topic). In order to buy the SSL certificate (typically we, as the host, do this for our clients), an email is sent to the official Administrative Contact on the domain name record. To figure out who that is, you do a whois (http://www.webstix.com/whois) lookup. That email confirms that they,…