Hi

I currently have route44entertianments.co.uk registered but have since found although it was supposed to be registered in my name, my previous host registered it in his name but at my address

Obviously im not sure how to resolve this and would appreciate some help.

I wish to use yourselves to host this for me and am not to sure what to do next,

Any advice would be appreciated

Many Thanks

Richard
Route 44 Entertainments

Hi Richard and welcome to MADHosting.

Have you spoken to your previous host about the fact that your domain name is registered in their name? Some companies do this a standard practice.

What you do about it is partly up to you and partly down to their response.

You can host your web site with us and still keep the domain name with your previous host provided they are willing to point the domain nameservers to our nameservers.

This way you will pay us for the hosting and your previous host for the renewal of the domain when it becomes due.

The other (and better solution) is to get your previous hosts to change the IPS tag on your domain to ours (contact me directly about this if you want to go this route). Once this has been done then we can transfer your domain into our control and future renewals will be done through us.

From a purely technical point of view there is no difference in operation of the web site whether we host the domain name and hosting or just the hosting, your visitors will not see any difference.

From an administration point of view it is far easier if you can keep it all in one place.

If you do want to get your own name onto the registration of your domain name and your previous company do not want to play ball, you can always get Nominet involved (Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names). They have a dispute service at www.nominet.org.uk/disputes Normally it does not go that far as the threat of going to Nominet normally has the desired effect.

Interestingly doing a whois search on route44entertainments.co.uk (I assume the misspelling in your post above was accidental) gives the registrant details and the nameserver address but does not resolve to a wesite but route44entertainments.co.cc (which I assume is also yours) does not return a whois reply but the web site resolves ok.

Hope this helps ok

Thanks
Richard
MADHosting.co.uk

Hi Richard

Thanks for the reply and advice

How would be the best as im not likely to get a favourable response from my old host due to problems with site

Also the original domain was supposed to be registered in my name and address this has not happened correctly

address is right but thats all.

Would it be best to just leave the .co.cc address as free and let .co.uk go dormant and have a complete new domain ?????

Cheers

No matter how bad the dispute between you and your previous host I would not give up on the .co.uk domain.
You can keep the .co.cc domain (you can have more than one name point at the same site) but it is not a commonly used extension so if someone was typing in the domain from memory (such as after a great night at one of your gigs) they would be very unlikely to remember that it is a .co.cc (which they have probably never heard of anyway), they would almost certainly try .co.uk and if that didn't work possibly try .com and then give up.

The fact that you have the .co.cc and other obvious claim to the name (business cards, bank accounts or other similar documentary evidence) it should be an easy job to get the name back through Nominet.
Don't forget that Nominet at the control authority for all.uk names so can transfer the name to us (or another domain registrar) without having to even tell the current registrar.

It doesn't cost anything to contact Nominet and find out.