If your email address changes and/or if you move and you do not update your domain name record, you could lose your domain name.

Most registrars' service Terms and Conditions require that you keep your contact information up to date. When your domain name is up for renewal, they will usually send one and only one invoice/reminder. If you do not renew your domain name, it could be held by the registrar and be made unavailable for your use or even purged from the database and made available again for anyone to register. Be sure to keep your contact information current at all times!

Here's a hint about changing your email address in the database. If you know what your new email address will be, change it while you still have access to the old email address, especially if you are the Administrative Contact. Some registrars (such as Network Solutions) use the Administrative Contact email address as authentication of identity of the person who is modifying the domain records. Because the Administrative Contact is the only party with the power to authorize such modifications, the registrar may send a follow-up message to the Administrative Contact, asking that person to verify the request before the modification will be made to the database. If the Administrative Contact does not respond, the modification is not likely to occur.

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