There are many important points to consider before selecting a domain name. But even after you decided for a domain name one has to be very careful since your web hosting partner can be a cheat. There are 4(Four) rights coming along with your domain name registration. Each are very important. Some hosting partners keep many of the rights with them to have a hold on you. Some of them even charge you for transferring those rights to you. In some cases they make a big delay which force you to accept their hosting service without bothering its quality. They attract you by offering cheap domain name registration charge. If you are serious about your web site, book your domain name with reputed people, keeping your rights with you.

Your web hosting partner can be a cheat

"Some companies are totally ignorant about the concept of domain name registration while others are taken for a ride by their web hosting partners. We receive many calls from companies where their web hosting partners have got a domain name registered with themselves as registrants(owners) or administrators" says Gurbir singh of Delhinet a premier partner of Network solutions in India

Take Vintron a Delhi based IT firm that has shown its reflexes in changing the name in accordance to market acceptability but does not own a domain name vintron.com. This name is owned by Cosmos Network a one time web hosting company of Vintron

The Four Rights

The domain registration involves four rights

1. Ownership
2. Administrative
3. Billing
4. Technical

Typically the owner would retain ownership and administrative rights while let the web hosting company retain only the technical rights.