It has come to our attention that some internet marketing companies demand that you transfer your domain to them in order for them to work on your website. This is not required to do SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web design, or any other service and does not have any added marketing benefit. If you are wondering “Should I transfer my domain to another company?” The answer is no. The only reason to do this is if you are selling the domain and do not want ownership of it anymore. A company would only do this so they can make it harder for you to cancel with them by holding your domain or website hostage. Falcon Digital Marketing will never ask you to transfer your domain to us. You should always have ownership and access to all of your accounts.
Transferring a domain means you are permanently transferring ownership of the domain name to the other company. It is the equivalent of a mechanic saying they can’t work on your car until you transfer your car title over to them. If the other company needs to use their own servers instead of yours, you can simply change DNS settings – which stay in your control if you need to change the settings later. If they need WordPress access or FTP access, you can add them as a new user. Nearly every system, even Google Adwords, Facebook Pages, and website hosting has a similar feature of granting and revoking access to a new user, without giving away permanent ownership of the website, account, or domain. Also, if the other company controls your domain name and the DNS settings along with it, they can change the hosting provider, take the website down, and also take the email down entirely. You can run a dns performance test to see what the problem may be. Website hosting and emails are also connected to your domain name, if you lose control of the domain name and DNS, you lose control of where and how your email and web hosting are setup, you should use an independent hosting company.
If a company is demanding that you transfer your domain and you’re not sure what to do, ask other experts in the field. If you aren’t sure of something, double-check with someone else, don’t let them talk you into something you are not comfortable doing.