June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
11h 1m
English
This contact set looks a lot like the registrant contact set, and in many cases they are the same or contain the same data. In the early days (when Network Solutions had the monopoly on .com/.net/.org domain registrations), there were only two contact sets: administrative ("admin") and technical.
Historically, it's the admin contact that exerts control over the domain name; even today now that the registrant contact set exists, if you have to do a password reset, or your registrar sends out some kind of notice, it'll often go to the admin contact email.
For this reason, it's very important that this email address be chosen with some care; I always recommend the following best practices.
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