For the past 10 years, we have seen all kinds of ads on web sites, we have seen ads for websites on TV commercials, magazines and just about every product you purchase today has an ad for the manufactures website. Did you know these ad companies are developing smarter technologies, which track you all over the Internet? Much like search engines now do? Oh you didn’t know your search engine tracks where you go and what you have looked at? Google recently did a TV special on CNBC called "In the mind of Google".

Whats the difference?
   To under stand the answer we must first know how visitors get to any site. There are various ways visitors come to your site, they can come via a page link from another site (referral), they can click on a Google search result from a keyword or keyword phrase (organic) or by knowing your site from social interaction (direct) or by a paid advertisement that you placed on another site (which is also a referral).

   Today many small and large businesses alike get notices in the mail for a Domain Name Registration SCAM. It is true that you must renew your domain from time to time, it is highly unlikely that your domain registrant company will send you any formal notice about doing so. Almost all of the legitimate ones, communicate strictly by email. So let’s talk about how this scam process or this mailing might come to your place of business.

   First of all when you went virtual (got a domain name for your company) either a company you hired a web, marketing or consulting company to obtained it for you OR one of your staff employees did the process on behalf of your company OR maybe you did it your self. In any case you or a representative of your company initiated the process to get your business name on the Internet in the form of a Domain name, such as http://www.YourCompanyName.com. Now when the representative did this, they HAD to give an email for point of contact and technical contact and most likely your business name, it’s phone number and address.