Re: Test

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 11:26:54 -0400, William Ferrell wrote:

> I tried contacting eNom a couple years back to try to wrest control of the
> domain back from the web hosting company that registered/renewed it for
> me,and never heard back from them. I don't object to trying again; what do 
> you suggest I actually write/ask them? I know the web hosting company was 
> sold (several years ago) to another company, and presumably they no longer 
> have any clue why they own the domain anymore anyway :)

I think the first thing to do is to contact the company who you think has 
control of the domain(s) and ask for the relevant "AuthInfo" codes for those 
domains. They may have to generate and send them to you or they may have an 
online facilty that you log into. Once you have the AuthInfo codes you 
should be able to go to any registrar and follow the domain transfer 
instructions giving them the domain names and AuthInfo codes. The transfer 
should then "just happen". One snag I can see is that the admin contact 
appears to be eNom and I think they have to confirm the transfer.  B-(

This certainly applies to the .com as that comes under ICANN. Does ICANN 
also administer .org and .net?

The whole ICANN transfer proceedure is here, in legalese, but you can work 
out what is supposed to happen:

http://archive.icann.org/en/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm

> Naturally because the domains have expired, all the contact information 
> has changed and I can't actually dig up the name of the "buying" web host. 
> So this brings me back around to the question -- what exactly do I say to 
> eNom to get the process started?

Ask them who the "Registrar of Record" is? Then ask that entity for the 
AuthInfo codes. I think Registrar of Record is the correct term, see the 
policy document above.

>> Curiously the .org gives me the real lcdproc site, even if I force my
>> browser to refresh, the other two give the "holding page".
> 
> Weird. I wonder how long that'll last...

Donno TTL of 1hr on the DNS record. I'm not sure where my DNS is getting 
that info from, though I'm pretty certain it asks the root nameservers for 
anything not in it's cache. If I ask my ISPs DNS I get a different answer...

-- 
Cheers
Dave.