[Gllug] Domain registrars

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:47:44AM +0100, - Tethys wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Alain Williams<addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >> Has anyone tried moving to a neutral Nominet tag?
> >
> > What is a ''neutral Nominet tag'' ?
> 
> From http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/maintain/changeregistrar/faq/
> 
> | What happens if I do not want a registrar?
> |
> | If you can provide your own hosting, you can also use this
> | process to move your domain name onto a neutral tag, which
> | is not associated with any registrar.
> 
> As I understand it, that's a tag provided by Nominet for those
> who run their own domains, but don't need to become a tag holder
> themselves (for example, because they don't need to register
> domains on behalf of their customers).

Is that not somewhat costly (#92) ?

	http://www.nominet.org.uk/registrants/register/direct/

I can understand why Nominet would want to do that -- much easier to let
all the registrars deal with pesky individuals/companies.

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