Whois now displaying Data validation status.

[foz]

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

 

[Murray]

Interesting thanks

I just checked my own whois

Data validation:
Registrant contact details validated by Nominet on 19-Jan-2013

But I see on others it says

Data validation:
Registrant name and address awaiting validation

 

[monaghan]

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.

Data validation:
Registrant contact details validated by Nominet on 10-Dec-2012

 

[stellar73]

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.

 

[Systreg]

So I guess "verification" must just mean that they check it is a legitimate address

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.

 

[retired_member34]

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

 

[kate-brownhill]

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?

 

[Systreg]

@ 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.

 

[bonusmedia]

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.

 

[Retired_Member38]

@ 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.

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.

 

[Systreg]

@ Monkey, have a look at the Q and A's here: http://registrars.nominet.org.uk/namespace/uk/launch/q-and-a#faq-id-723

[edit] Removed incorrect answer from Q and A's

 

[Systreg]

That's for .uk 2LD domain names. He's on about his 3LD's.

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?

 

[Murray]

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/webwhois.cgi?wvw7yesk=3hryr4hby3&wquery=tarotsue.co.uk

hmmm