It can give you some useful information about genuine nature of site.

4) CONTACT INFORMATION-- Can you contact webmaster either by phone, fax and /or email.

Personally, I like dealing with those that give you all of above information. There is something comforting to me that I can call or e-mail site manager if something goes wrong with my purchase.

5) CREDENTIALS-- There are several "credentialing" sites online. There intention is to offer some validity to site by tracking complaints from former users.

If site does offer such a service, by all means check out what others have said about their experience with business.

A note: Not all legitimate businesses offer such a "seal of approval". I assume because there is usually a cost involved, or they just don't feel that they need it.

While this article is not all-inclusive, it is intended to give you a "heads-up" when surfing to unknown areas of internet and experiencing dealing with new sites that you discover.

Larry Johnson, author

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A quick check at: http://www.netsol.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois Can provide you with lots of information holder of domain name including how long it has been registered.

4) Do they provide good, complete contact information?

A phone number email address is a minimum here.

This is certainly not a complete list of things to check out about a business site online, but it will give you a good starting place.

Hopefully, it will save you some problems when trying to determine which ones are wearing white hats?

Larry Johnson, author

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