Pages can be rebuilt. A wrong legal entity is hard to fix. These traps are common, and they usually explode at a bid, a payment, or an outbound email.
- The domain is registered to a person or an agency. A departure, a broken partnership, or a missed renewal and the domain may not be yours. Register it to the company. Keep admin access. Do not keep the password in one notebook.
- The ICP entity does not match the license or the site letterhead. Domestic access needs ICP filing and the entity must match. A personal filing under an enterprise site is painful to transfer and fails diligence. Diligence looks at these surface details. See tenders and diligence.
- A site without company email. Quoting from a consumer mailbox drops credibility on the spot. Open at least postmaster or sales@your-domain and set SPF/DKIM so replies do not land in spam.
- No HTTPS, or an expired certificate. The browser warns it is unsafe. Buyers wonder if the site is fake. Certificates should renew automatically, not after one manual upload nobody owns.
- The server is in the wrong place. Pure domestic demand can sit in China. Overseas buyers on unaccelerated China hosting get a slow English site. Export need: Why Exporters Need a Standalone Website Even More and whether you need bilingual pages.
- Source and accounts sit with one person. No handover notes. Changing one sentence means finding “that person.” Same operating risk as nobody updates it.
A hidden problem: free hosting or a personal builder account to save money. Ads, popups, and injected links appear without you. A gambling ad is worse than no site. Cheap template hosting often does this. Compare template vs custom.
Accept “it opens” and “the company owns it” separately
At close, take: domain admin (company account), server or cloud, code or CMS access, how certificates auto-renew, ICP password, company-email DNS. Missing any item means begging to change a sentence later. Put renewals on an admin calendar. A snatched expired domain is worse than an ugly page. Failed overseas email: check DNS and anti-spam first, not sales copy.
On timeline, ICP is often left out of “two weeks of build.” It depends on entity paperwork. Reserve time. Overall pace: cost and timeline and From Brief to Launch. DaXi writes domain ownership, ICP help, and email into the plan so you do not learn after launch that the company does not own the site. To review a current domain, send the facts to the corporate website service page. Diligence looks at these surface details. See tenders and diligence.
Also keep this in mind
Split staging and production. Editing on the live domain shows customers a break immediately. Sign off on a preview, then cut DNS. DNS takes time. Do not change it at noon on bid day.
If DNS, email, and hosting sit with different vendors, leave admin a relationship diagram. When people change, “who has the domain” breaks first. The diagram beats any verbal handover.
Do not bind admin SMS to a private number nobody will hand over. Use a role number or at least two people who can receive codes.
Check HTTPS, DNS, and email on the launch list. Do not wait for “unsafe” reports. Infrastructure, not extras — they decide whether you look like a real company.
After the live cut, open once on phone 4G and once on office network. Do not trust “it looks fine on office Wi-Fi.” ICP and certificate issues often show only outside.