after some web research I hereby ask for some disambiguation of webhosting terms:
With a whois (as a command in a terminal or a web interface) one can detect the registrar of a specific domain.
This registrar is a company (e.g. InterNIC, OpenNIC...) which sold or rented the domain to a natural person.
Can this person also be detected via a certain command or only by requesing the registrar for this information?
If there's something mixed up, please bear with me :-)
PS: My question relates to this one but as I assume the real owner does not necessarily have to be the company who sold the domain. Am I right?
Regards and thanks in advance
There is some terminology that might be useful here:
Registry - The company/organisations who has the
agreement from ICANN to operate the
TLD (Top Level Domain, the .com,
.org, .net, .coop). These
organisations are only allowed to
sell these domain names to Registrars
(Wholesale)
Registrars - These are
the companies that you, as a Registrant, go to to register domain
names with. These registrars will
often be able to sell you additional
services like DNS, Email and Web
hosting.
Registrants - These are the
end users (you and me) who want a
domain name.
There are some registries that allow you to hide your (the registrant) details. An example of this is Nominet (who operate the ccTLD .uk). There are also some registrars that offer a proxy service which you can hide your true ID behind.
Your are correct in believing the the company who sold the domain (the registrar) is not person/company who registered the domain (the registrant). To make matters harder there is no standard format for the WHOIS output, which can been fetched from the registries WHOIS Server (TCP port 43). There is discussions at ICANN to push for a new standard IRIS that will standardise the result in an XML format, but this is a very long way off.
If you want to, like in the other question that you referenced, have to in some way identify if your visitor is the valid registrant of a domain name then the easiest way would be to allow the user to select one of the special RFC stated (sorry I can not remember which one it is) email addresses, that should be set up by the registrant, eg. postmaster#, hostmaster#, root#, admin#, and then send a unique code to that email address that the user can enter back via the website. This is one of the methods used by the SSL companies to verify the requester of a SSL certificate is authorised to use it.
Hope that this helps.
Jonathan
Using whois on domain name, you can person or company who has registered the domain. the output depends on who bought the domain - it could be a reseller and if it is, you will not get an info you want. http://whois.domaintools.com/stackowerflow.com
Using whois on IP address, you can detect hosting company:
ping stackowerflow.com # gives you 74.125.43.121
http://whois.domaintools.com/74.125.43.121
If you have a legal reason, why you need to contact website owner, the hosting company will pass his contact information to you. If you don't then just go to a website and look for a "contacts" page :)
using whois :
Domain nameserver information for enom domains:
http://blog.phpcode.co.in/php/domain-nameserver-information-enom-domains/
Domain nameserver information for UK domains:
http://blog.phpcode.co.in/php/domain-nameserver-information-for-uk-domains/
Related
Let's just say I have the ambition to make my company become worldwide company, do I register all the domain names individually just like what you would do on single domain name or is there different way of doing it.
for example, how Yahoo, Google, facebook, etc register their domain name worldwide.
Any information would be greatly appreciated
It will be simply a case of buying each Domain you want for your website .co.uk/.com/.net/.org and pointing them either at the same website or different website depending on your companies goal. If you got back to your hosting company (or whoever you purchased the domain from) they should have the others there for you to purchase (unless another company or someone has brought them already)....
Thanks,
Charles
Say, you have a 2nd level domain name of your home town: my-town.us and you want to give away 3rd level domain names (like the-barber.my-town.us) automatically and for free to anyone requested (i.e. implement 3rd level domain hosting). How would you go about implementing it?
I thought about using wildcard DNS record *.my-town.us to point to a web app, which would make a redirect based on requested url. But that would not be any good, because redirect will, well, redirect instead of using the desired domain the-barber.my-town.us.
You should delegate subdomains, just like the domain my-town.us was delegated to you.
Just like you supplied contact information and a list of nameservers when you registered my-town.us, they should supply contact information and a list of nameservers to you. You then list these nameservers as NS records in the parent zone.
One of my friends had a forum with Freeforums.org and they bought a domain name through them. Recently he wanted to transfer the .org domain name to his own host which uses a Plesk control panel. Freeforums sent him an EPP code to transfer the domain.
How would he use the EPP code to transfer the domain?
You friend needs to take that EPP or Authorisation code and give it to the registrar that they want to move the domain to. The new registrar will then (normally) send an email to the registrant contacts for the domain to double check that they agree to the domain transfer. Once the registrants agree they will start the domain transfer process. This does not need any work to be done by your friend but this stage basically gives the losing registrar a chance to object to the transfer of the domain. If the losing registrar does not do anything then after 5 days the registry will automatically approve the transfer and the domain will transfer to the new registrar. If the losing registrar approves the transfer then the domain will transfer sooner. (I work for a registry and I have never seen a losing registry approve a transfer address, they just leave them to time out)
Hope that this helps
Jonathan
.name domains can be registered at the third level (ie: first.last.name can be registered in a way that last.name is shared first#last.name is forwarded, and separate people own different *.last.name domains).
However so far the only registrars I've found that support third-level .name domains don't support whois privacy (putting their info in whois instead of yours, forwarding the messages to you) and preferentially I'd like to keep whois protection on every domain name I own.
There are also 3rd party privacy protection services, but so far the only ones I've found don't support .name domains.
Are there any good registrars supporting third-level .name domains and privacy protection, or 3rd party whois privacy services that support .name domains?
I'm not sure what you're after here that you don't already have. Here's what I get when I do a whois daniel.friesen.name (omitting all the disclaimer boilerplate):
Domain Name ID: 4362273DOMAIN-NAME
Domain Name: DANIEL.FRIESEN.NAME
Domain Status: ok
That's it, no other identifying information is returned.
There are quite a few out there providing free whois privacy. You can see the full list here:
https://www.domcomp.com/tld/name
I manually checked a few providers and they seem up to date.
I've got a problem where I have a .co.uk domain of which I am the registrant but my web developers control the domain via easyspace.com. I'm not using the web developers anymore and it ended on bad terms so I would like to change my domain to another registrar without getting them involved. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thanks
In order to do anything with your domain, you need to be a registered user for it. for every domain, there 4 types of registered user:
Registrant/Owner
Administrative Contact
Billing Contact
and Technical Contact
If you do a whois look-up of your domain name you can see if you are one of those registered users.
If you are, you should be able to contact the Registrar of record (i.e. GoDaddy, Network Solutions, GKG, etc.) and gain an account control login if you do not already have a login for them.
Once you have an account, you can change the Name Servers thereby pointing your site to a different server than it is currently, or initiate a transfer to a new registrar (which costs money - typically the price of a 1 year registration)
Tell them to give you control of it. You're not asking them to do something for you, you're just demanding them to hand over what's yours (assuming the domain is yours).
If you own the domain name, you should be able to change the information with the registrar to point it at another hosting service or your own.
Change your domain host to point to a new name server that you control.
You may lose your web site code but can always start a fresh.