The business should understand who controls registration, renewal and recovery. Paying an invoice does not establish that it controls the registrar account.
What to check
Identify the registrant and authorized account access using owner-approved records. Confirm renewal notices, recovery contacts and the ability to change DNS.
What to do next
Agree on ownership and access in writing with the provider. Verify the handoff through authorized account checks rather than asking staff to share passwords by email.
The review pattern behind this topic
Prior website planning involved separate content, publishing and application systems. Those dependencies made it important to distinguish a proposed handoff from a tested transfer of working functions.
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