[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

Stuart Langridge sil at kryogenix.org
Mon Jul 12 20:56:50 BST 2004


sparkes wrote:
> go to a website that looks up names in the whois database to see if they 
> are free  123reg.co.uk is about as cheap as they come so enter the name 
> on there and they will tell you if it's available and won't charge a lot 
> for it.

Do Not Do This.

You have a Linux box. Use "whois whatever.co.uk" from the command line. 
Typing it into a website to do it is dangerous; some of them will assume 
from your search that you're looking to register that domain and will 
then register it *themselves* so they can charge you fifty quid for it 
rather than about a tenner.

Aq.



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