Richard Lewis wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:22, James Taylor wrote:
Ok, can someone tell me the deal with Domain registration and what should be availible - as far as I was aware, you had to give your name and contact details when you register a domain unless its for personal use, and I thought this was a UK rule, but it seems that Scotland allows anonymous registration through privacy companies (who register the domain as being private with a private address).
My experience has been that you have to give your name and contact details when you register a domain but that, once you've registered and if you are a personal user, you can opt out of having your contact details available on the whois domain look-up service.
Yes, and I apologise for not having a very good original post - I was too excited about going kite flying at lunch (which was only marginally successful due to lack of wind).
It also makes sense to have details available, but I was wondering more what actually was required - I mean there has been clarification in the law that company websites should show the company details, and that emails should contain company information (just as a letter from the company should), however, I thought this applied to the UK in general not just England - Does Scotland (and Wales and Northern Ireland) obey different rules?
Noodles said something which made me think as well - does the type of domain being registered matter? I mean if you're registering a .fr domain in the UK, are you obeying UK law or French law?
The only reason I ask is that we have a competitor who I was trying to find out some information on, who are based in Scotland who don't give out any information on their website, such as a phone number and so on, and who is registration comes back as registered to easyspaceprivacy.com , for which to contact the domain masters you fill out their online form. Whilst I understand that some people are allowed to have their details made private (same exceptions as a PO Box being able to be made without the P/O knowing your address), this easyspaceprivacy does seem to have attracted fraudulent use (searching for them comes back with dodgy escrow services for example).
Oh and I know that some ISPs will let you register with crap details if you really want to hide who owns a domain you can but thats not the point, I just wnat to know if they are supposed to be doing a better job or not.
JT