How do I find out who owns a website/who its registered to?

Batf1nk

Batf1nk

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Basically, I think i've been stiffed by an internet company and in the event that they dont reply to my mails and sort this out I may have to go through the small claims court.

Still early days but after some digging they seem to be extremely unreliable with some people taking weeks/months to get a refund and others not getting one at all.

In that event I need to know who i'm dealing with and where they are (need a name and address basically).

Thank you.
 
Is it a UK site?
If you can prove your the owner of a site, you can contact nominet and request the domain to be transfared to another Tag (another company). This can be done behind the back of the company that 'stiffed' you.

Not sure about internatinal sites.

*edit* note that this applies to the domain name only www.example.co.uk not the contents of the website.
 
Batf1nk said:
Was gonna hold off saying but I'm only repeating whats happened to others before me.

www.jperformance.co.uk

Based in Antrim I believe.
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Use Nominet's website for UK based sites, whois.net is good for .com's :)

http://webwhois.nic.uk/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=jperformance.co.uk&WHOIS+Submit.x=29&WHOIS+Submit.y=7

Domain name:
jperformance.co.uk

Registrant:
C Kelly

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
Unit 12
301 glen Road
Belfast
antrim
BT11 8BU
GB

Registrar:
Fasthosts Internet Ltd [Tag = FASTHOSTS]
URL: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 06-Nov-2006
Renewal date: 06-Nov-2010
Last updated: 02-Jan-2009

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns1.terrassl.net
ns2.terrassl.net
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Awesome. Confirmed the few bits of info I had and added lots more.

Cheers.
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EvilOne said:
Oo, fasthosts...

Didnt know those lot where dodgie.. Will remember that now.
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Fasthosts are generally quite poor from what I hear, often bad customer relations with poor speeds and reliability.

Again just what I've heard, I've never used them myself.
 
EvilOne said:
Oo, fasthosts...

Didnt know those lot where dodgie.. Will remember that now.
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Fasthosts are just the domain registrar - nothing dodgy about them other than their sub-standard service. :p

As I understand it, the OP has ordered from a website and not received anything, so he's trying to track down the company/person in question that runs the site so he can take it further...
 
daz said:
As I understand it, the OP has ordered from a website and not received anything, so he's trying to track down the company/person in question that runs the site so he can take it further...
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Almost... I have ordered something and recieved it... but... it doesnt fit like it should making it next to useless so i want to return it for a refund.

As yet, they've not got back to me how to go about doing this!
 
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