OK time to eat humble pie it seems whoisguard subscriptions don't cover .co.uk domains and the old domain was a .com (I hadn't looked at it in months lol)
But still according to namecheap I'm meant to contact nominet to "opt out" thing is though how am I meant to sign into their site if I've only ever dealt with namecheap? I've had one crappy letter from nominet in over a year and after half an hour spent looking for it the site says the details no longer work because they changed something
I'm off to have another beer and a heart attack. Enjoy your weekend
