Whois Info

[Guest Barbara]

If I pay for your company to register a website name, will that name appear with my contact info in the WHOIS directory?

 

I believe it should but got burned with Feature Price registering my website under their name.

[TCH-Sales]

It will show that you registered through us, but other than that it should be your information. Unless when you sign up for the domain name you do a private signup, then I dont belive anybody can find your information on whois. Have a nice day!

[KevinW]

Barbara,

 

First, understand that there are different "names" listed with a domain name - Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact.

 

Second, what most web companies (like FeaturePrice) won't tell you is that since you are paying for the registration of that domain name, you have a right to obtain the userid and password associated with accessing the registration account to make changes to your domain name - like changing the DNS nameservers.

 

-kw

[Lianna]

Also, understand this difference between FP and TCH:

 

With FP, when you register a domain name, YOU really don't register it, THEY do. Therefore, they place all contact info as their own then *should* give you access to change all pertinent info through their Helpdesk panel.... I have personal experience with this one and you're right, it ain't pretty. Even after changing information in that given panel, the info reverted back to their settings each day...4 in a row!

 

With TCH, YOU are registering the domain. When you purchase it, you designate the information that will appear for Registrant, Admin, Billing contacts, etc. You are also given access to full control of your domain's registry entries via a control panel that YOU have username and password for, not TCH. So, TCH can't change your info, period. (Although, we can help guide you through the process.)

 

Hope you enjoy it here at TCH!

[matman]

Actually, good old FP was "giving away for free" domain names with service. Since the customer was technically not paying for it, the customer really had no rights to it. Very sneaky, nasty, stupid, under-handed, etc., but still technically legit.

 

Luckily I noticed all that in the fine print and declined their kind offer to register my domain name for free. They even admitted to me on the phone when I asked that if I left I would not be able to bring the name with me since THEY would actually own it, not me. Nice way to treat customers, trying to trick them into a trap and lock them in for life!