Below is an excerpt from one of the articles we write each month for the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce Advocate Newspaper and Business Journal. Please let us know if you'd like access to any of our other articles. Titles include:

• “Should You Have an App or a Site?”
• “Marketing at a Tradeshow? Three Simple Steps to Make Your Next Show a Success”
• “Using Social Networking to Improve Your Business Prospects”
• “Why did my brochure print blurry?”
• “Direct Mail, a Marketing Gem When It’s Done the Right Way”
• “Why Is My Site Down?”
• “How Does Your Website Measure Up Compared with Your Competition?”

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Whose Website Is It Anyway?
Four Things You Need to Know to Keep Your Site and Email Up, Running and Safe.

It’s a story we hear all too often... a frustrating tale of a hijacked domain name or a lost website. Sometimes it’s a relatively easy situation to resolve if you know how to play cyber detective and what to look for. It can be especially challenging when you don’t understand the way websites work, or if you inherited a mess that could have been avoided. No matter what industry you’re in, your website and email are especially vulnerable if you don’t have these things under control.

1) Domain Scams
It could come in the mail and look like a form to renew your domain name registration. This is a common domain scam. Look carefully at the form. It might list a slightly different domain name or one with a different extension – like .cn instead of .com. If you fall for it, you pay for a domain you didn’t want. A similar but much more dangerous scam actually transfers your domain away from where you had it. You could pay more, have no way access to your domain and even lose it altogether.