RE: FN-FORUM: Domain ownership issue

date posted 22nd May 2006 19:51

Tom,

I've had some issues in the past with moving domain names from poor
companies who put up brick walls and are really unhelpful.

I'd highly recommend keeping your domain registration separate to your
hosting. I use www.UKReg.com (fasthosts) for all my domain purchases, =
then
my hosting is with www.hostgator.com (really cheap, really reliable and =
you
can host multiple domains) with my DNS pointing to my hosting.

I had to contact fasthosts (the people I was moving to) for assistance, =
who
ever you're moving to would give you the best advice.

Anyway. Doing a WhoIs lookup (www.networksolutions.com), the domain =
doesn't
show a Registrar, which is odd. What is worrying is:
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED

Normally it should be: "Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK"

Not sure where you got Apisnetworks from?

Other suggestions:
www.trainspotted.co.uk is available for about =A36 (2 years) from UKReg.
Would it not be worth just ditching the .org and using the .co.uk?

Peter


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Allen [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 22 May 2006 17:53
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: FN-FORUM: Domain ownership issue


Hi folks,

I've got a bit of a situation here.

2 years ago I registered a domain - trainspotted.org - at the same time =
as
buying hosting for a small project of mine. I used a hosting company =
called
Apis Networks in the US - www.apisnetworks.com. No problems for a year, =
but
after the year was up I decided to renew the domain and move the hosting
elsewhere. Apis Networks gave me a user/pass to log in to a control =
panel
on some other domain registration company's website (I can't remember =
the
company), and I did this and updated the nameservers to point to my new
hosting (at www.web-mania.com).

After a year of Web Mania, I've decided that even this small project is
worthy of something slightly less shite than the completely abysmal =
service
I've had from Web Mania. Problem is, how can I move my hosting? I've =
no
longer got the user/pass for that site that let me update my domain's
nameservers a year ago. And I'm not a customer of the original hosting
company who gave me those details. And all my emails to Apisnetworks, =
and
to the domain registration company I've found by WHOIS-ing my domain, =
have
been ignored.

Now I'm stuck with a domain that doesnt expire til 2007, no way to
administrate it or change the hosting, and a crap hosting company that I
wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy.

Any ideas on how to re-establish ownership of my domain and get access =
to it
again, so I can keep my project alive on a hosting package that doesn't =
fall
victim to a mass defacement attack through badly-configured PHP and then
tell me they don't make backups of their customers sites?

Thanks in advance!

Tom

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