Do you wait till the last minute to renew your domain name? Well, here is a piece of news which will prompt you to renew your domain well in advance. Reuters reported that chinese Web users have lost 10,000 domain names since they were unable to renew it in time. This is was due to the internet disruption caused by earthquakes near Taiwan.

The figure 10,000 looked pretty cooked up to me. It turns out that the news may not true after all.

Liu Ningbo from HiChina Web Solutions Ltd (www.net.cn), China’s largest domain registration service provider, said the losses are only possible in “theory” but not in “reality”.

Internet users are reminded at least a month before their leased domain expires and the domain names are frozen and kept for one or two months after the expiry date, he said.

But anyway I am going to renew my domain well in advance. I don’t want to be the victim of “Act of God”!