Domain Name Not Ours?

[Freelancer87]

Hello,

We contracted a company to design and host our website. We had them purchase 4 domain names, 3 of which redirect to our main website.


When I go to the WHOIS website, it does not mention our name or the company we contracted to do our work. Is says 'easyspace.com'.

Did we get hosed?

Thx,

Dave

 

[OldWelshGuy]

easyspace is the registrar. what domain extensions are they? .co.uk .com etc?

Anyhow as long as you have an invoice detailing the domain names you will have no problem proving ownership. Domains are a bit like cars, the name on the registration document is the keeper and not always the owner. ALTHOUGH some unscrupulous twerps think that is the case. If you can prove you own them then you can always wrestle them back. Nominet is the easiest to do this with, they are ace.

 

[adampembs]

Others may disagree, but in my opinion, buying several domains that redirect to your main one is a waste of money and possibly harmful to your search engine rankings, because you are diluting any links you get between the domains.

Generally if you own several "secondary" domains, you need to populate them with different content and then funnel them into your main domain for best effect.

If the domain is .co.uk - go to nominet.org.uk and check the "registrant name" - this should be the name of your company. If not, get it changed as you could have hassles down the line.

regards
Adam
PC Rescue

 

[Optegris]

What's the domain name and I can check if you are the owner. PM me the domains if you prefer.

 

[iksol]

Nominet are good for resolving UK domains... but what about .org or .com?

Who do you contact regarding those TLDs?

And are they happy to arbitrate in the case of an ownership dispute?

 

[TotalWebSolutions]

Who do you contact regarding those TLDs?

And are they happy to arbitrate in the case of an ownership dispute?

ICANN are the governing body for top level domains such as .com/.net/.org and so they can assist with disputes for these. They have a Dispute Service via their website.

 

[OpenSure]

Hi. If you've got a .uk registered name, you should as an owner be able to access it via Nominet. You should also be registered as an owner on the other TLDs via the registrar such as Tucows or Easynet etc.

It's *really* important to get this sort of thing straight - we had a client who brought us a legacy situation where they actually lost a domain that we didn't look after because the details on the registration weren't 100% accurate and they're now in a legal case over it

If there's anything we can do to help please drop us a line at OpenSure (I can't put the email link as I haven't posted enough yet!) - we're always happy to chat and to help.

 

[Freelancer87]

easyspace is the registrar. what domain extensions are they? .co.uk .com etc?

They are .com, .org, .co.uk and .net

I am going to let my contract with the webhost run it's course, then run for the hills. I just don't want to be held hostage!

-Cheers

 

[sonnas]

Others may disagree, but in my opinion, buying several domains that redirect to your main one is a waste of money and possibly harmful to your search engine rankings, because you are diluting any links you get between the domains.

Generally if you own several "secondary" domains, you need to populate them with different content and then funnel them into your main domain for best effect.

if that is the case, what would you suggest in terms of populating "secondary" domains, in term of eccommerce clothing store site? i have several secondary domains pointing to the main site.

how best to populate the other domains with different content, as its a store?

and how would i go about funneling to the main domain?

 

[netro1]

Others may disagree, but in my opinion, buying several domains that redirect to your main one is a waste of money and possibly harmful to your search engine rankings, because you are diluting any links you get between the domains.

Generally if you own several "secondary" domains, you need to populate them with different content and then funnel them into your main domain for best effect.

If the domain is .co.uk - go to nominet.org.uk and check the "registrant name" - this should be the name of your company. If not, get it changed as you could have hassles down the line.

regards
Adam
PC Rescue

But what about if you upload the index.html (example) page to it - surely it will rank that page if people visit the URL?

What I mean is, if you upload www.redirect-domain.com/index.html to your redirect domain, and have all the other links as www.actual-domain.com/whatever.html - surely it will rank?

 

[MASSEY]

But what about if you upload the index.html (example) page to it - surely it will rank that page if people visit the URL?

What I mean is, if you upload www.redirect-domain.com/index.html to your redirect domain, and have all the other links as www.actual-domain.com/whatever.html - surely it will rank?

yeah but it will have to be in a seperate hosting file to your main url wont it.

Your hosting account will be for your main domain not all the extra domains you buy.