UK Registrars

Until they open up their whois database to the world, yes you have to contact Nominet to find the owner of a .uk domain. They are promising to have more publically available data this summer.

http://www.nic.uk/whois-qanda.html

-t

 

because of current privacy rules, nominet should not divulge the contact details so unless you have a court order or the reseller is overly helpful you're stumped.

its set to change though come summer when they are adding address info (not phone or email though) to the output.

 

[DaniilKharms]

They seem to have the right idea. ie not publishing e-mail therefore my junk mail won't increase any more, apart from through the post maybe

 

[DaniilKharms]

Just a thought on UK2.

Someone said you have to pay to move from them. I think I have found a loop hole via Joker.com, I have recently transfer some .coms away from UK2 without paying. It may be different with co.uk's though

 

with uk's the current tag holder has to release them to the new tag holder - unlike .coms where the new registrar does the transfer initiation. You can go direct to nominet, but they contact the tag holder and ask them if there is any reason to not release the domain. If there is a legal contract where it says they charge a trf fee - then nominet should not, in theory, allow the transfer if uk2 say no.

 

[Whois-Search]

www.123-reg.co.uk is the best Uk register by far

 

[sossiges]

Great thread this and I have to agree with the comment about easyspace.

IMO this is THE worst reg. company in the universe. They nearly cost me a sale as they took two months to transfer the name.

They have NO phone contact number. What does that say about them.

Currently, I have an excellent domain which is about to expire. I can't log into renew. I email them constantly. They reply with an automated response telling me to log in. Duh?

Avoid at all costs!