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Nominet acts over Firevision debacle
May 2005
UK registry operator Nominet has at last acted
against domain name registrar Firevision, which
has left thousands of customers in limbo and
unable to access their domain names.
Some Firevision customers - none of whom have been
able to get access to their domains or a response
from the company for months - have received an
acknowledgment email from Nominet which states:
"Currently Firevision are unable to make any
changes to .uk domain names, this includes
changing the hosting tag."
However, the response falls far short of what
furious customers want. We warned Nominet nearly
two months ago that Firevision, run by 27-year-old
Graham Briggs, was not responding to any requests
from customers or making any changes through its
online system, effectively putting thousands of .uk
domains, as well as .com, .net. org and .info
domains, in a state of limbo.
At the time, Nominet's director of operations,
Eleanor Bradley, assured us that Nominet was
keeping a "close eye on things" and that it would
act on any reports of problems. She also advised
that for a fee of 15 per domain - up to a maximum
of 30 - Nominet would step into and transfer the
domain details to another authorised registrar.
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