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Arguments for owning your own website
27-11-2007 1:23 PM
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To my surprise I have found that the site name is owned by the hosting company and not by the organisation.
I intend to raise this at the next meeting but I need some good arguments.
Can the experts here help in this.
The obvious ones I can think of are that they are stuck with the present (expensive) hosting company and if the company goes bust the name will probably be lost.
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27-11-2007 4:31 PM
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Bob Pullen
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Re: Arguments for owning your own website
27-11-2007 4:43 PM
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Are you saying that when you put the domain name into something like this and pick your .co.uk that the organisation is not named as the registrant?
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27-11-2007 5:18 PM
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27-11-2007 5:20 PM
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Bob,
Quote from: Bob Most hosting companies will allow the transfer of a domain name to another provider. Is that not the case here?
Perhaps I wasn't too clear.
This is not a case of moving the site to another hosting company but that the owner of the site is shown as the hosting company not the organisation.
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27-11-2007 6:51 PM
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I hope it doesn't become a case for Nominet's dispute resolution service
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27-11-2007 9:52 PM
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27-11-2007 10:09 PM
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What happened to the data protection act?
Never got a reply when I raised this a few weeks ago
Puddy
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27-11-2007 10:15 PM
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28-11-2007 8:07 AM
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Quote from: puddy I have noticed with whois it gives out your name and address to anybody who looking if you own a web site and its listed.
When you register you give permission for your details to be held and distributed for enquiries re: the domain you register.
You can opt to keep your details private, but only if you have registered the domain as an individual or as a sole trader IIRC.
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28-11-2007 4:03 PM
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Quote from: Swift If your a sole trader you can opt out of the whois by going into your domain control panel where then your address would be hidden.
Any commercial use at all means you cannot opt out!
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28-11-2007 4:10 PM
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Quote from: Oldjim To my surprise I have found that the site name is owned by the hosting company and not by the organisation.
I know my Bytehost domains with hosting also do this, I opted out of personal details as its a hobby website and now note it has an address in London 🙂 My other domains from UKreg are not done this way, just says my name and no address, this one is just the domain name with no hosting.
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