Had an offer on a domain I'm not the registrant of today

[Murray]

I have a .uk

a company who exercised their rights to the .uk then let it drop, have the co.uk

Their whois is now private by standard, mine is not

An end user today made me an offer of £2500 for the co.uk

In the email he put domain.co.uk, so I asked for clarification if he was making an offer for the .co.uk or .uk, since I am only the registrant of the .uk

He replied

"Ah... sorry my mistake I am interested in ___.co.uk

I was under the impression that until 2019 the owner of a co.uk could buy the .uk domain am I wrong about that also?"

Messy business this .uk and whois privacy stuff

 

[monaghan]

I still fail to understand why a business would enable whois privacy, as a business they are supposed to show virtually all of that information on their website anyway. This whole GDPR thing has just caused major confusion with most going into lock down mode in panic in case they get a fine.

 

[keys]

I still fail to understand why a business would enable whois privacy

The default is now Registrant name and address hidden, unless they login to their Nominet account and change settings to reveal these details. I understand GDRP for consumers/ individuals, but automatically applying it to all Registrants regardless will have negative consequences.

 

[monaghan]

Bonkers, I'm guessing most small business wouldn't know how to switch it back on or even know it was now off.

 

[Murray]

Got this email just now

"I might be misunderstanding but if the registrant of ___.co.uk has the option to register ___.uk until 2019 I don't understand what you would be selling?

If I buy ___.uk from you will I be sure I can keep it?"

Id already explained, apparently not very well

It would be much easier if I could give examples using whois of different co.uk and .uk owners

 

[donton]

Bonkers, I'm guessing most small business wouldn't know how to switch it back on or even know it was now off.

I went through all of our company’s domains and turned it back on last week. Couldn’t for the life of me work out how to do it at Namecheap, so had to do it directly in the Nominet site. There’s no bulk option to do it, so had to go through one by one.

Don’t understand why they made it private for limited companies, PLCs etc, because they have to put that info on their websites anyway.

 

[Murray]

They ended up buying the .uk for low x,xxx amount so worked out really (not quite the 2.5k but still)