can a hosting company suspend a domain?

[seanc]

can/should a hosting company suspend a domain name ?

isnt this what the Nominet DRS is for?

 

[grantw]

Nope. If they are also the registrar for the domain they could mark it as 'no longer required' or DETAG it, that's about it. At the most extreme they could also gain access to the Nominet account and cancel it entirely.

Grant

 

[seanc]

i would have thought that they would keep out of any copyright / trademark issues, especially if the WHOIS is public.

and IF they did, then they should have contacted me!

 

[jimm]

At the end of registration period some will change the nameservers. This is a grey area as far as im aware. In my view it shouldnt be done but others go by the thought the paid up period is over.
If a domain is still within its registered period a hosting company could suspend the hosting or dns if using their services so no services actually work or they could detag the domain but that is all they should do to the domain.

 

[grantw]

i would have thought that they would keep out of any copyright / trademark issues, especially if the WHOIS is public.

and IF they did, then they should have contacted me!

Have they done something to the domain or just suspended the hosting?

Grant

 

[seanc]

Have they done something to the domain or just suspended the hosting?

Grant

suspended the domain due to copyright (its an amazon store)

 

[dropcycle]

UK Registrars can apply an 'Investigation Lock' to .uk domains which removes them from the zone file.

 

[grantw]

suspended the domain due to copyright (its an amazon store)

In what way suspended though, it's impossible for them to actually suspend it in the Nominet sense of the word? Does it say this in the whois - *** This registration has been SUSPENDED. *** ?

If it does say that and it's not due for renewal then I'd say Nominet must have also been involved in it.

Grant

 

[grantw]

UK Registrars can apply an 'Investigation Lock' to .uk domains which removes them from the zone file.

That would probably be it then, completely forgot about that!

Grant

 

[seanc]

In what way suspended though, it's impossible for them to actually suspend it in the Nominet sense of the word? Does it say this in the whois - *** This registration has been SUSPENDED. *** ?

If it does say that and it's not due for renewal then I'd say Nominet must have also been involved in it.

Grant

No, sorry, Grant.
the registration isn't suspended, the account is.
when you go to the site it just says account suspended.
in my control panel it says its suspended, when i try and un-suspend it, i get a message saying 'copyright infringement'

 

[wb]

In that case, it's just the hosting that has been suspended. They have probably received a complaint if the domain is a trade marked one. There may well be something included in their terms over this too.

 

[aquanuke]

Cpanel WHM has a one click suspend account feature which makes it all too easy for hosts to do this. I dont agree with it unless used because you never paid the bill.

Legal matters are not the hosts concern as they are not qualified to judge and I know i've had complaints that had no merit.

 

[seanc]

Cpanel WHM has a one click suspend account feature which makes it all too easy for hosts to do this. I dont agree with it unless used because you never paid the bill.

Legal matters are not the hosts concern as they are not qualified to judge and I know i've had complaints that had no merit.

i have paid the bill
and as you say legal matters should not really be the hosts concern, unless of course its 'vile' content or something, which it isn't.

the domain may be a trademark issue, but its not blatant, so a DRS would be needed to prove so.

 

[aquanuke]

lol did not twig who I was replying to Sean , nothing to do with our earlier convo

 

[seanc]

"The Nominet DRS system is irelevant in cases like this. The DRS is there for issues relating to domain names themselves, not intellectual property infringements due to the content being hosted under them. You should contact the plaintif directly to determine what you should do to correct the infringements."

i have no idea what the above means...
its an amazon store selling a household product.

 

[wb]

Is the household product related to the possible grey-area domain name?

 

[grantw]

"The Nominet DRS system is irelevant in cases like this. The DRS is there for issues relating to domain names themselves, not intellectual property infringements due to the content being hosted under them. You should contact the plaintif directly to determine what you should do to correct the infringements."

i have no idea what the above means...
its an amazon store selling a household product.

DRS is not irrelevant at all if the complaint relates to the domain name that's being used to display the products! Unless you've ripped off someone elses product/images/content I'm guessing this is all related to the domain in use. Would there have been a complaint if the amazon store was running on a generic domain?

Grant

 

[seanc]

yes - its the only items i sell on the store

this is just an example domain name:
bmw-seats.co.uk

im selling bmw seats from amazon - nothing else

 

[aquanuke]

DRS is relevant. If you ran your own server then you would hardly suspend yourself. So their only course of action would be court or DRS. (and court would be out as your not in the UK Sean)

 

[seanc]

DRS is not irrelevant at all if the complaint relates to the domain name that's being used to display the products! Unless you've ripped off someone elses product/images/content I'm guessing this is all related to the domain in use. Would there have been a complaint if the amazon store was running on a generic domain?

Grant

there are probably half a dozen small images being used before you go into the amazon store - these are hardly copyright images (if they are then i would be very surprised !! and would be happy to change them if i knew as there are a million others i can use)

the rest of the images are amazon's - the site does not even have a logo.
i'm not getting much sense out of the hosts as you can see from the reply above.