*resent to list as originally posted from a wrong email address !* Hi Matthias,
I assume you appreciate that "detagged" is not the same as "deleted"... detagging is used when the ISP or hosting company no longer wish to be invoiced for the domain - it's a useful tool to have... it also removes the DNS entries - so if you sent your email to the domain address itself, that will be why it bounced. a detagged domain is still registered to the registrant - even if it goes beyond the renewal date, the registrants still tend to be given forever and a day to renew it ! let me give three examples of domain detagging that we have done ourselves (we're members of Nominet):- 1. domain detagged in February 2002 2. domain detagged in March 2001 3. domain detagged in November 1999 - all three are still detagged today ! the only advice I can give is to try to contact the registrant, I know you've tried emailing, but there are two other ways that I can think of... either wait until the WHOIS is changed later in the year - the admin contact details will be made available... or write (on pen&paper!) to Nominet and ask them for the admin contact - they'll provide you with it by post (I hear they give postal details, but no phone numbers). hope this helps - if you need any more help, feel free to contact me off-list regards Brian > > > A "detagged" domain requires the legal registrant to contact nominet > > directly to have it moved to a new tag. > > Sorry, perhaps my descriptrion was not very good. > I already tried to contact the former registrant end of last year, > but the email was returned because of failure. > So I do not know about the current address of the registrant. > > I expect that the domain will be released in the future. > It is no a 'high value name' but might be interessing for a few others too. > > So an ideal service would be somebody who has already set up a script > to try to register the domain twice a day. > Registration must not be with OpenSRS but of course we would like to transfer > in the future the domain to OpenSRS.. > > If somebody offers such a service, please contact me offlist. > > Matthias >
