You have finally achieved the great Australian dream! You have bought a house, you have been happily living in it for a while; you regularly make payments … and then all of a sudden you discover you don’t own your house. That the person who handled the sale registered the deeds to your house in their name and they have now decided to claim it and sell it on to someone else.

Sound far-fetched, or the stuff of those trashy tabloid Current Affairs shows? It happens every day in thousands of businesses around the world – but the only thing is that it happens with virtual real estate and not bricks and mortar.

We often see this problem occur when our clients come to us to build a new website for them. We check out their domain name ownership and often find their domain name isn’t registered in their name.