They're going to put my home address on the web!

[ciphergoth]

On 1 July, Nominet will publish the addresses associated with all domains under its control: *.org.uk and *.co.uk among others. One of the main reasons I went for cluefactory.org.uk was that it didn't have this requirement. I need to get my details changed fast!

Advocacy website against the change

Reports from The Register: 2002-04-08 and 2002-04-30

Thanks for the heads-up, skx!

Clarification: I already have a BM address I use for domains like ciphergoth.org; I just need to get the details changed on my UK domains to point at this address.

Update: At the moment that domain is registered with a friend, and so I always feel guilty mailing him to ask for changes. If I wanted to transfer to a commercial registrar, who should I go to and how do I do it?

Comments

[purplerabbits.livejournal.com]

So can we get the BM address in there instead? Or what's the alternative?

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Well they don't object to people using PO Boxes.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

...which the Post Office will tell you the name and address of the owner of if you ask them iirc.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I've mailed the guy who registered it for me asking for the address to be changed to BM Boog.

[countess-sophia.livejournal.com]

What revolting behaviour. Why are they doing this?

I would have thought the obvious solution would be choose a real but no longer extant address (but which will appear for example in the A-Z) and put that down. I can offer a couple of suitable ones if needed.

Soph xx

[zz]

how easily will they reveal the true destination of mail redirections, d'you know?

[giolla.livejournal.com]

That would make receiving, and returning Domain certificates tricky as they're real paper things that get posted.

[lovingboth]

Yeah, I saw that one a couple of weeks ago I think and thought 'why???'.

But as anyone can get my address from a .com or two, I'm not that fussed. It's tempting to start a 'accommodation address' style business though.

[mistdog.livejournal.com]

Is that YOUR iris in the picture?

[stevenothing.livejournal.com]

What use are the certificates, out of interest? I registered my domain, got the certificate, then moved house, and I never bothered to tell them I'd moved house. All correspondance has been done via email. Fair enough, if they wanted to find me, they could probably ask the landlord, if it's still the same guy, but just curious as to how useful the certificates are?

[giolla.livejournal.com]

Mainly to prove you own it, if the ISP/Registrar you got it through goes tits up, or if someone tries to move it without your say so. The person with the most current certificate is deemed to be the real owner. AFAIR.

Maneging a .uk

[hiddenpaw.livejournal.com]

http://123-reg.co.uk

dirt cheap but seem to work most of the time.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

No way! It's taken from a web page about iris code biometrics.