Check your WHOIS email !
Ask yourself this question: Will the registrant email you use for domain registrations exist even if you l were not in the company anymore?
The golden rule is to ensure that the contact email is not dependent on a specific employee. It is rare that an employee stays with a company forever, so the WHOIS (official registrant data) contact email has to outlive any person. You can always update your admin or billing contact email with us with a click, but the WHOIS email is not so easy to change.
When making a registrar transfer the country hostmaster uses the email in the WHOIS to send an email to the registrant. This email has to be confirmed in order to complete the transfer. In many cases this email does not exist anymore. This would have been avoided if a generic email was used like info@, support@ or it@.
Even worse is the scenario when the contact email´s domain has expired. Companies can change name and expire unused domains. In this case a 3rd party registrant can register the domain, create the contact email and transfer/change registrant data. The email controls the ownership of the domain !
So check your WHOIS data, and in case you expire a domain, then make sure that they have not been used for contact emails.
