Take this example of the whois for one of my domain names. I wanted to find out who the registrar is, so I whois-ed it. But what I get is the following. I’ve never dealt with tucows and they are presumably the top-level registrar that some smaller agent uses for registrations. So that doesn’t help me in finding the ‘real’ registrar - the agent I did business directly with. The dns servers aren’t any help, they are AA’s and I changed the settings to point to the servers belonging to AA, who are providing dns service but not registering the domain.
So the question is, if you’ve forgotten the real agent, is there any way of finding out what it is? I suppose not. I’m having tremendous problems with my memory, as you know. And I’m trying to review what is registered with whom. I’m getting everything down to just two registrars : AA and dynadot.
It’s a shame that the whois info doesn’t give the agent as well as the top-level registrar. When I used UKServers (who is now no more) they used iirc Melbourne IT as their top-level registrar - or whatever the correct term is.
The following is a real entry for a domain of mine, with the domain name changed:
Domain Name: weavers-domain-name.COM
Registry Domain ID: 20868424_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.tucows.com
Registrar URL:
http://www.tucows.com Updated Date: 2020-08-02T21:22:02Z
Creation Date: 2000-02-28T10:28:25Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-02-28T10:28:25Z
Registrar: Tucows Domains Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 69
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone:
Domain Status: ok
https://icann.org/epp#ok Name Server: PRIMARY-DNS.CO.UK
Name Server: SECONDARY-DNS.CO.UK
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form:
https://www.icann.org/wicf/>>> Last update of whois database: 2020-08-03T18:32:02Z <<<