[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

Mo Awkati mawkati at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Jul 12 21:27:57 BST 2004


--- Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote: >
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.
> 
  Thanks for the tip Aq!

  Mo






	
	
		
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