>Dear JM: >Thanks for your very insightful reply. >Where do I go to find out who is the registered owner of these names ? >Thanks. D --
David The amount of information about who's registered what vairies for domain types. .uk domains show relatively little. The key is to see who's name is the registrant rather than who it's registered by. You can look up domain info :- http://zonedit.com/whois.html or uk only http://www.nominet.org.uk/index.html (domain name search LHS) or http://tatumweb.com/iptools.htm A trick sometimes used by some registrars is to register the domain in their name. With UK domains Nominet will issue a certificate (sometimes takes months, occaisionally years) to the REGISTRANT, though frequently via their agent (whoever registered the domain for them). Nominet are just changeing the rules re moving away from one 'tagholder' (host or domain reseller) to another. It used to be that the tagholder could refuse until all fees were paid to them, now the registered owner can ask nominet who will move it, but moneys owed will STILL be collectable under nominets T's & C's.(http://www.nominet.org.uk/howto/terms-final.html). JM =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
