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When a .uk domain is registered, there is an option for non trading individuals to have their address details omitted from a public lookup.

Only domain name holders that are non-trading individuals can opt-out of having their address details published. In other words, if you do not use or plan to use your domain name for business, trade or professional transactions you will be entitled to opt-out of having your address displayed.

Sadly, we are seing more and more domains using this illegally, in particular, so called web design companies who really do know better.

By registering a domain name ending in .uk (with some very limited exceptions), you enter into a contract of registration with us (Nominet UK) on the following conditions, which includes conditions limiting our liability and relating to our use of your personal information. This contract is just for the domain name and separate to any arrangement you may have with any other organisation for providing internet services.

In other words registering a domain like this breaks your contract with Nominet.

SoftData Internet Ltd are of course full members of nominet, and are capable of registering .uk domains on our own TAG. Nominet are changing some of the ways in which registrars like ourselves register a new domain.

The requirement to supply a registrant billing contact for new domain name registrations has been removed.

We have reduced the number of telephone numbers associated with a contact to two landline and two mobile numbers. We have also removed the fax number. This applies to all contacts for both registrar and registrant accounts. This change only affected a small number of registrars who have been contacted to clarify their correct numbers.

Any new registrations made with more than the allowed number of telephone numbers will be rejected.

There have been some changes to the welcome email that we send out. When a new account and a new account contact is created we send a welcome email giving account login details. We have shortened and simplified this message and for registrant versions greater emphasis is given to their registrar’s details and if applicable the registrar custom message.

On 5 May 2009 we will be introducing a new function that will allow registrars to lock a domain name that they suspect is involved in phishing activity.

The phishing lock removes the domain name from the zone file and prevents any further changes being made such as registrar changes or nameserver modifications.

The phishing lock can be activated using EPP or the automaton. There is also an unlock operation to remove the phishing lock.
All this information is available on the official Nominet site

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Nominet is the Internet registry for .uk domain names.

We operate at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running one of the world’s largest Internet registries and managing over six million domain names.We maintain the register of .uk domain names. We run the technology which locates a computer on the Internet hosting the web site or email system you’re looking for when you type in a web address or send an email to an address that ends in .uk.

Nominet Registrars

As a registrar, we are able to process domain name applications through Nominet’s registrar systems, which require a minimal level of human intervention and mean that domain names can usually be registered in a matter of seconds.  Only registrars (and not members without a tag) are entitled to use these systems.

SoftData Internet Ltd are registrars and our TAG is SOFTDAT