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Whois now displaying Data validation status.

Discussion in 'Nominet General Information' started by foz, May 7, 2014.

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  1. foz

    foz Well-Known Member

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    If you look now, the .uk whois displays a Data validation field.
     
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  3. Murray

    Murray Well-Known Member

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    Interesting thanks

    I just checked my own whois

    But I see on others it says

     
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    monaghan Well-Known Member

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    What junk! I just got a renewal notice from a company with 1 2 and 3 in their name, the registrant is a Ltd company but the registrant type is unknown and the email is clearly wrong as it is my address not the registrant.

     
  5. stellar73 United Kingdom

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    Getting the same as Murray, some validated some not.

    No idea how they validate this as I use a scanmypost.co.uk contact address which is only used for domains and not used for anything else (live in Scotland but this is purely to keep my home address private)

    So I guess "verification" must just mean that they check it is a legitimate address, not that they check that you have any other association to it that is traceable.
     
  6. Systreg

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    Yes, Invincible posted about it here, I mentioned about scanmypost.co.uk as I'll be using that, and it seems that as long as the postal address is verifiable, that's all they require.
     
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    I've just sold a domain, had the normal nightmare transferring it into a 1&1 account, so it now still shows my company name and number in the registrant fields (but is no longer in my Nominet account), at the purchaser's address. Yet the whois states:

    Data validation:
    Registrant contact details validated by Nominet on 01-May-2014
     
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    What do they do with domains that are outside the UK? Seen some addresses in Turkey and Romania recently. Surely not easy to get hold of address data for some less developed countries?
     
  9. Systreg

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    @ Kate, for overseas registrants, they'll need to get and display a verified UK postal address in the Who-Is, as well as the registrants overseas address also being listed. The UK address is a requirement for an address for service based in the UK that they can verify.
     
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    IIRC there was broad support for improving data validation in the .uk consultations.

    Clearly there will be teething trouble, as with any change, but in principle it is worth checking registrants are who they say they are.
     
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    Is that not only for .uk rather than .co.uk?

    I've got some .co.uk domains registered to my house in Portugal and they're showing as verified. Likewise with my Czech address.
     
  12. invincible

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    I think they verify the existence of the registrant and the address is real. I had to assist nominet verify the validity of an offshore entity back along.

    (from Note 3)
     
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    My mistake, having just looked through the Q and A's again, I can't see anything relating to whether .co.uk, org.uk etc need to have an UK address for service if you're an overseas registrant, so I'm guessing not, until the point that you register a .UK at the 2nd level. then you will?
     
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    They don't *at the moment* but who is to say Nominet won't eventually make it a requirement once .uk 2LD's have bedded in and we are all used to the requirement with that? It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.


    (from iPhone)
     
  17. Murray

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