Domain Name registration for Offline Client

Do it for them and send them a bill.

Why? You are in the business of making money - if you hire a lawyer, they won't sit there and walk you through the process of how to file a claim in court, then tell you just to do it yourself. They do it for you, and then they charge you.

Its weird how some people have the misconception that wil web services they can save themselves a bit of money by 'doing it themselves', yet they are on the phone asking us - the professionals - HOW to do it!!

Its one thing that drives me up the wall with clients who seem to think that, it's just a website, so it should be cheap/free/peanuts etc etc

Always remember that you are in the business of making money.

I usually pay $8 for my .com domain names and I charge the client $50, which covers my time & knowledge in registering the site and setting up DNS etc etc.

Of course, the client always owns the domain in the end, but at each renewal time, they still have to cough up that cash to me to do their renewal (I always list my business contact as the tech contact)

Sometimes, I through a domain in as a deal sweetner, but again when its up for renewal, they need to pay.

I never get my clients to register their own domains, as not only does it still end up causing me work (with no payment) I also find that usually somewhere down the track - some sort of problem arises and it takes three times as long trying to work out who has the domain, where it was registered and how to get the details I need.... *sigh*

HTH, Suzy