Modifying the Whois / Contact Details of a .UK Domain Name

Understanding .UK domain name Contacts

  • A .UK domain name displays only 1 Contact when performing a Whois lookup:

    Registrant Contact: This contact represents the owner of the domain name.

    Note

    There are no Administrative, Technical and Billing Contacts for .UK domain names.

    Additional Information

    Registrants who are non-trading individuals (those who do not use or plan to use their domain name for business, trade [including registration of domain names for monetization purposes] or professional transactions) can choose to opt out of having their Contact Details displayed in the Whois lookup.

    This option can be enabled by the Registrant from within his Nominet control panel.

  • General Contacts used for other domain name extensions (TLDs) can not be used for a .UK domain name. A .UK domain name has a separate Contacts database.

To Modify the Registrant Contact Details (except the Identity) of a .UK domain name

Note

For modifying the Identity (Anchor: identity) of the Registrant Contact of a .UK domain name, the current Registrant will be billed directly by the .UK Registry.

Identity refers to:

  • Name of the Registrant Contact, if the Registrant Contact is an individual

  • Company Name of the Registrant Contact, if the Registrant Contact is a non-individual

Additional Information

Process laid down by the .UK Registry for Change of Registrant Identity

  1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the domain name and proceed to the Order Details view. 1

  2. Click the Contact Details link.

  3. The Current Registrant Contact will be displayed. Modify the Contact information for the domain name by specifying it in the text boxes. You can modify all the details except the following:

    • the Name field, if the Contact is an Individual

    • the Organization field, if the Contact is a Company

    Note

    The update will be applied to all the domain names using this particular Registrant Contact.

  4. Click Save Contact Details.

Note

Apart from the above process, Contacts can be created and managed independent of the domain name(s), directly from within the Customer Control Panel.