Posted by William Tasso on 03/08/06 18:54

Fleeing from the madness of the jungle
Sally Thompson <sallynewsgroup@yahoo.co.uk> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster,alt.html,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
and said:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:39:41 +0000, Usenet wrote
> (in article <VA.00001a9a.0b31ebd4@vowleyfarm.co.uk>):
>
>> And
>>
>> reading through PIPEX's t&c's it says that (in the case of name
>> registration) what they do (& just about all they do) is pass the
>> application on to the relevant naming authority!
>>
>> Is this really such a difficult thing that we can't do it ourselves
>> directly?
>
>
>
> Nothing to stop you AFAIK, but I think you will find it far more
> expensive -
> look at Nominet's home page - 80GBP plus VAT per domain. 123-Reg charges
> less than a tenth of that.

ahh yes - .uk is one of the easy ones. the hoops one must jump through to
register a .com (for example) are not so trivial:
http://www.icann.org/registrars/accreditation-process.htm

--
William Tasso

whither a trophy?

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