I've had an email this morning from the company that I originally got my domain name from. However, I dont have the site hosted by them and as far as I was aware it is nothing to do with them any more. However, they're asking me to give them

Looking at your whois record, I dont see any reference to Titan Internet LTD, and your domain expires in Jan 06. Unless Joker.com has some association that is.

I got the whois details as follows:

admin-c: [email protected]#0

tech-c: [email protected]#0

billing-c: [email protected]#0

nserver: ns1.ancilenetworks.co.uk

nserver: ns2.ancilenetworks.co.uk

status: lock

created: 2004-01-05 13:00:59 UTC

modified: 2004-01-07 20:29:32 UTC

expires: 2006-01-05 08:00:43 UTC

Is this a standard fee for domain renewalls or can I do it myself directly with Nominet(?) for less?

Will cost you

What you can do is transfer it out of Titan before it expires. But you may have to pay a ridiculous fee to them for the priviledge.

So the bottom line is that its going to be easiest to pay Titan their

Yup. And as Rob has stated, that ain't too bad of a price for 2 years renewal.

Yes, and the person you register the domain with is naturally the one who will continue to bill you unless you transfer it out. Where you host it is your choice.

.co.uk are MUCH cheaper - I'm paying 123reg.co.uk about 6 pounds per 2 years for my .co.uk domains. I host them elsewhere also, and just redirect them from 123reg.

.co.uk are MUCH cheaper - I'm paying 123reg.co.uk about 6 pounds per 2 years for my .co.uk domains. I host them elsewhere also, and just redirect them from 123reg.

What you can do is transfer it out of Titan before it expires. But you may have to pay a ridiculous fee to them for the priviledge.

When my domain was with freenetname they wanted some stupid amount to change the tag to easily so I could move it, so I contacted nomiet direct and they changed the tag for me, I think easily took the

I got the whois details as follows:

admin-c: [email protected]#0

tech-c: [email protected]#0

billing-c: [email protected]#0

nserver: ns1.ancilenetworks.co.uk

nserver: ns2.ancilenetworks.co.uk

status: lock

created: 2004-01-05 13:00:59 UTC

modified: 2004-01-07 20:29:32 UTC

expires: 2006-01-05 08:00:43 UTC

The internic whois search reveals

Domain Name: PHILGOOCH.COM

Registrar: COMPUTER SERVICES LANGENBACH GMBH DBA JOKER.COM

Whois Server: whois.joker.com

Referral URL: http://www.joker.com

Name Server: NS2.ANCILENETWORKS.CO.UK

Name Server: NS1.ANCILENETWORKS.CO.UK

Status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

Updated Date: 10-nov-2004

Creation Date: 05-jan-2004

Expiration Date: 05-jan-2006

From

http://www.internic.net/whois.html