We can't write a guideline or best practice for everything. We occasionally update this page with additional guidelines. If you know of a best practice you would like to see added here, please contact us to consider it's inclusion.

1. Know that DNForum cannot get involved between disputes between members. Please refer to Rule #27.

2. Before completing a transaction, you may wish to advise the other party to become a Verified Member.

3. Try and avoid using Paypal and seek alternate methods of payment if you do not know the other party very well. Perhaps after several successful transactions you could consider it for convenience, but do try and use a third-party escrow service. Unfortunately, PayPal does not afford much protection to domain sellers so please use this payment method carefully. PayPal accounts are occasionally compromised and some sellers have reported receiving funds that were unauthorized. If you must use PayPal, perhaps wait several days or weeks before you push the domain to the buyer, but in the meanwhile while you wait for the funds to season, perhaps ask if they want you to change the DNS records of the domain so they can host or park it on their servers while you wait.

4. Do not use the same password on one website as on another website. This is an easy way for accounts to get compromised. Use a unique password that only you know, use a hard to guess combination of letters, numbers, characters, uppercase, and lowercase wherever allowed, and certainly never use a dictionary word. Pick a password that is hard to guess.