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).
Is this right? I mean I guess its just one person registering the domain as their own, who isnt the person who is actually using it (like ISP's registering it on behalf of the person who wants it, but in the ISP's name not the persons name).
Thanks JT
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.
e.g. http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=richard-lewis.me.uk
Cheers, Richard
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
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:43:40 +0100, James Taylor jt@imen.org.uk was rumoured to have said:
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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?
I believe that what information goes on the whois database is generally a matter of registry policy, and not The Law (tm). For instance, Nominet allows private individuals to have their details omitted:
http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/whois/faq/#choose
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).
It could be that easyspaceprivacy.com own the domain name and are not just the registrant's agent.
rgds, /-sb.
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