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As the internet grows everyday, so does the amount of challenges domain name holders face. Hackers are one of the biggest problems. Even the big companies like Microsoft have been hacked in the recent years, so protecting your domain should be your top priority.
Sometimes its as simple as over looking one of the basic precautions – like your password. Passwords are your first line of defense. They keep out most trouble as long as they are well thought up. Never make a password that is easy to guess off of your user name. Things like birth dates, mother’s maiden names, favorite pets or any other information that might be found on a social website are not the best idea.
One strategy for passwords is following the ¾ rule. Which means to use three out of four of the types of characters found on your key board: capital letters, lower case letters, numbers and symbols. If you want to use your mother’s maiden name, replace a letter with a symbol or number. “Smith” might become “Sm1th” or “$mith.” The longer your password the better. Using a inside joke or a random string of characters is also viable as a password.
Make sure you change your password every month and make sure that the password has nothing to do with the previous one. This is where random string of characters come in handy – they have nothing to do with each other and are hard to guess. Follow the same guide for random string passwords as above and mix 3 of the 4 types of characters.
