Who Owns Your Domain Name ".co.uk"

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akwe-xavante
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Who Owns Your Domain Name ".co.uk"

Post by akwe-xavante »

Who owns your Domain Name?

Do you own it?

Does Your Registrar own it?

Does Your Hosting Company Own It?

Go to: https://www.nominet.uk

Enter the email address that was used to register your domain name (If you can remember what it was) to register and wait for the email, it can take seconds or as much as 24hrs for this email to arrive in your inbox, don't forget to check your spam box.

If the email address you entered is correct then you'll get your email, if it was wrong you won't get an email at all.... try again!

If the email address you entered was Correct:
You'll get you email, folow the instructions and create your password and then login to your new Nominet Account to find out who owns your domain name.

If it was incorrect and or you didn't get an email from Nominet within 24hrs phone 01865332244. One of two things has happened, one: you've forgotten what email address you used to register your domain with! or the registrar or your hosting company used there own company email address to register your domain name..... they own your domain name!!!

The good news is that Nominet have actually made the process of recovering peoples ownership of there domain names and there websites quicker and easier at a cost of £10 per application when things do go wrong from now on. It will take on average 14 days now to complete this process, in the past i've known it take several weeks even months to complete.
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Post by newtimber »

It's a lot easier to have a different registrar to your hosting company. Most registrars allow you access to your domain name online where you can just change the name servers when you change your hosting company.
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Post by akwe-xavante »

It's a lot easier to have a different registrar to your hosting company.
This can be true or false depending who your registrar is and who you host with! It's not that simple.

Some registrars (123-reg) as an example give you ownership of your domain names and full complete unrestricted access to the configuration of your domains and you can host wherever without restriction. In this situation your correct.

However some hosting companies insist that if you want hosting then you must register a domain name with them or transfer existing domain names in, they won't allow you to have your domains registered with some other registrar.

Different registrars offer full control of your domain names by default (123-reg) as an example while others offer restricted access and configuration on initial purchase and then demand an extra premium if you want make changes such as changing MX & A settings and records or changing your nameserver addresses. Some demand more money for mail boxes others offer them free, some offer mail forwarding free as standard and others either prevent this altogether or demand an extra premium to enable this feature.

As a general rule the cheaper the initial purchase the more it will cost you when you start wanting more and it often costs a lot more than if you had paid just a little bit more initially elsewhere in the first place. As a general rule these people then explore transfering a domain name to another registrar because of the additional costs required to activate additional basic changes to find that there registrar wants a lot money to transfer. £300 is not an unusual sum to pay!!!!! if you find yourself trapped in this situation.

What is a registrant, who is the registrar what what on earth has Nominet got to do with it all?

The person wanting a Domain Name is the registrant (Owner).
The Registrar is a person or company registering the Domain Name for the registrant and makes sure that the registration of the domain name is recorded on a national database, this is where Nominet come in. Nominet hold and maintain the national database of registered domain names in the UK.

However some registrars don't register the registrant of the domains name as the person that initialised the process, instead they register the domain name in there own name instead.

Mother (Registrant) has child and gets birth certificate from doctor, goes to registrar to register birth of child, registrar enters the birth of the child on a national database. Simplistically exactly the same process. NOTE the addition of a birth certificate though to ensure that the (registrant) mother is actually the mother of the child being registered.
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Post by AndrewH »

Thanks for that explanation, akwe-xavante. The terminology in Whois and Nominet has always been a bit of a mystery to me.
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