RE: OT: Domain Tags

["Paul Gale" <p-gale@xxxxxxx>]

I was so fed up with the service BT were giving me with one of my (.co.uk)
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domains that I decided to move the IPS tag to FASTHOSTS (UKREG). I didn't
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ant to pay the =A390 BT would charge to move. I emailed Nominet who were
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ry helpful - they said that I should contact BT and tell them that I was
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happy and also write to Nominet at the same time requesting that they make
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the change for me (no charge). I did all this and didn't receive any reply
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>from
C after 3-4 days.

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I expect I didn't get charged because of BT's incompetence though.

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There is a page on this process on Nominet's web site (can't remember the
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ink at the moment though) - may be worth having a look and contacting one
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f the very helpful support staff there.

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Paul.

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Fidell [mailto:james@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 27 February 2003 11:51
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT: Domain Tags

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Quoting Rob Mouser (rmouser@xxxxxxx):

> I have a number of domains that I had registered with Freeola.co.uk. I
> now wish to renew these domains with someone like ukreg.com but the
site
> informs me that the tag needs changing from freeola to ukreg? Freeola
> no-longer host these domains, in fact some have expired but are still
> registered to me?

Expired domains aren't really registered to anyone any more, but Nominet
say they will attempt to contact the previous registrant to make sure they
no longer want the domain before releasing them completely.

> Freeola want to charge me =A310+VAT for EACH Domain name to move these
> domains? Surely if they no longer host them there must be another way?

My understanding (as a Nominet member) is that Freeola may charge an
admin fee if they made it clear at the time you registered the domain
that there would be such a fee -- ie. it forms part of your contract
with them.  Quite how this might apply to expired domains, I'm really
not sure.  You may also find other Nominet members unwilling to take a
transfer of a domain that's already expired because this is common in
cases where the domain has been registered fraudulently.

I'd check what your agreement with Freeola is, and then contact Nominet to
see what advice they can offer, but the easiest way out might well be to
renew the domains with Freeola and the transfer them all away.

James