WhoIs

[wehateporn]

The company I pay for my domain have just said they are changing the company they use.

My WhoIs used to have my details there, but now it says the following

Registrar: DIRECTI INTERNET SOLUTIONS PVT. LTD. D/B/A PUBLICDOMAINREGISTRY.COM
Whois Server: whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Referral URL: http://www.PublicDomainRegistry.com
Status: clientTransferProhibited

Any thoughts on this? I never paid to be anonymous, is this domain still mine?

Thanks

Pete

[choona]

Did you purchase the domain and hosting together?

If so it sounds to me that, your hosting is switching domain registration companies.

[wehateporn]

My domain is with a different company to the hosting for historical reasons

I can login to the domain to change nameservers, but I don't understand why it no longer has my name on the WhoIs

[stonehammer]

see if u can switch to namecheap or moniker....hopefully you can

[purecharlie]

If you can log into the domain to change nameservers, why don't you log in and unlock the domain, make a note of the domain's authorisation code and change the Admin e-mail address to your own.
Then set up a new account with a different registrar (controlled by you and no-one else) and transfer the domain to your new control panel - you will already have the Authorisation code, the domain will be unlocked and any authorisation e-mail will get sent to you as the admin e-mail contact to approve - hey presto, problem solved