Ensuring equal access with your partner, spouse, or your business partner is important to ensuring your account or domain names remain active.

If you have a domain name or a portfolio of domain names for your business, ensuring you have a strict organization policy when it comes to vendor account creation or domain name registration is critical. The steps below will ensure your organization is the owner of the account and or domain names:

• Ensure the registrant of the domain name is your organization's name.
• Ensure the vendor account is in your organization's name.
• Ensure that access to the email address used to set up these accounts is decentralized, but can still be used to send emails. Do not use a distribution list email address.

If you are operating a business, use an email address that is not tied to the domain name itself, such asjohn@example.com; instead, use one of the many well known email providers as best practice. Additionally, the email address itself should be one that is shared with your business partner with a name such asourbusiness@example.com. This is important because many companies require the person who is contacting them for support have access to the email address associated with the account.

Most if not all online services have automated billing processes that will attempt to bill the current or default credit card on file. Maintaining your billing information to avoid any payment failure is critical, as this can cause service disruptions if there is a failed billing attempt that is not resovlved in a timely manner.

While often overlooked, an important part of having an online presence is ensuring continuity in the event of an unexpected accident or incapacitation of the account holder. Create clear instructions for domain or account management in the event the account holder is unable to administer the account. If you learn no instructions are available on how to access the account of the deceased, Cloudflare may be able to assist you.