On January 04, Keith Antoine enlightened our ignorance thusly: > On Friday 04 January 2002 12:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > > On January 03, Declan Moriarty enlightened our ignorance thusly: > > > I got an Irish Government Grant (payout) to get an Internet site. The > > > site put up was ABSOLUTE junk, and the company involved > > > http://www.getfreeinternet.co.uk will not answer the phone, answer > > > e-mail, amend the site, or do anything they said they would. > > > > > > At this stage I would like my domain back, and to get rid of them > > > altogether, while maybe making things difficult for them in passing. > > > They, however only get paid for the site, and have ignored requests to > > > remove it. Where do I go from here? > > > > My recommendation would be to start the process to move your domain > > elsewhere -- perhaps when the new domain host requests the transfer, > > they will have better success. If not, they may have more clout to > > compel the transfer. > > > > Kurt > > Kurt, Declan, > > My memory is not real good now-a-days; however I am sure that the transfer of > domains has nothing to do with the ISP as much as it has on the owner of that > doamin name, and the posessor of the nic handle. If you posess the nic handle > and the domain all that has to be done; I am in the throws of transferring my > ISP operation from one ISP and setting up another. All I have to do is go to > ITMelbourne and redelugate the domain to the new site and servers. These have > to be online and running at the time. So long as there are no outstanding > monies the ISP has no say in the matter.
Agreed. However, the issue becomes difficult when both the original ISP and the new ISP maintain DNS records for a domain. While the owner of the NIC handle certainly has the power and the right to delegate the domain to anyone she chooses, if the old ISP does not delete the DNS records for that domain, competing DNS records will exist if or until the records at the new ISP (which would be the authoritative ones) supercede the records at the old one. Kurt -- You too can wear a nose mitten. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users