Thanks for your reply, Ed. I'd appreciate some clarification however.
The registrar and the registration service provider are two different
entities - is this always so ?
I realise that in the following some of the "entities" are actually the
same organisation, but in the worst case one might have to contact all
of the following
The current and prospective registrars
The current and prospective registration service providers
The current and prospective DNS service providers
The current and prospective hosting service providers
In my case it looks as if wananchi.com serve three roles - web hosting,
DNS service and registration service.
Zoneedit seem to offer free, basic web hosting as well as DNS. If I
decided to go that route ('cos I'm a _really_ cheap bastard ;-) )would I
need to deal with wananchi.com (as the current registration service
provider) OR with Tucows (the registrar) OR with both of them ?
Tx for your forbearance (I really am ignorant in this area)
Ed Leafe wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 1:42 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
How would I find that information, Ed ? And will Godaddy or
EasySpace of whoever be likely to assist me in the transfer ? When
you say "get the DNS set up somewhere else", do you mean at the new
host (Godaddy or Easyspace) or is the DNS provider completely
separate from the hosting provider ? As you can tell I am very much
"pas au fait" with these things.
You can have them be the same company as your domain registrar if
they offer DNS service, or they can be different. I use a free service
for DNS (zoneedit.com) because I'm a cheap bastard. ;-) And I use
GoDaddy as my registrar.
Here is the result of a simple whois query:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ whois foxpertise.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.
Domain Name: FOXPERTISE.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.tucows.com
Name Server: NS3.WANANCHI.COM
Name Server: NS2.WANANCHI.COM
Name Server: NS1.WANANCHI.COM
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 11-Sep-2006
Creation Date: 04-Nov-2004
Expiration Date: 04-Nov-2006
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:51:22 EDT <<<
[snip]
Registrant:
Foxpertise
169 Cidar Ct Mountain View
P.O Box 76640
NA/
NAIROBI, N/A N/A
KE
Domain name: FOXPERTISE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Paul, Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
169 Cidar Ct Mountain View
P.O Box 76640
NA/
NAIROBI, N/A N/A
KE
254 20 631657 Fax: 254 722 721493
Technical Contact:
Odhiambo, Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Loita House, Loita Street
1st Floor
P O Box 10286
Nairobi, Nairobi 00100
KE
254-2-313985 Fax: 254-2-334435
Registration Service Provider:
Wananchi Online, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
254-2-313985
254-2-313922 (fax)
http://www.wananchi.com
This company may be contacted for domain login/passwords,
DNS/Nameserver changes, and general domain support questions.
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 11-Sep-2006.
Record expires on 04-Nov-2006.
Record created on 04-Nov-2004.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.WANANCHI.COM 62.8.64.3
NS2.WANANCHI.COM 62.8.64.4
NS3.WANANCHI.COM 62.8.64.2
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So it looks like you could go to http://www.wananchi.com to find
out more information, or call one of the numbers listed for them.
-- Ed Leafe
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