We are developing a service that will allow information about domain name resellers to be included in our communication with registrants.

This new service will give registrars the option to provide us with information about their resellers and then link domain names to those resellers. This will allow all of our registrant communications and lookup services to reference the reseller. As a result the information that we publish about who hosts a domain name will be clearer and allow the customer, reseller, registrar and Nominet to deal more effectively with any queries relating to the domain name registration.

The reseller associated with a domain name will also be published on WHOIS.

This project is being launched in two phases. The first phase, going live on 9 March 2010, will allow registrars to submit data about their resellers and link them to existing domain names and new registrations. The second phase in May 2010 will utilise this data in our emails to registrants and on our lookup services, such as WHOIS.

Further details about this project and how to use this new service are available.

If you have any questions about this service please contact our Member and Registrar support team on 01865 332233 or by email on support@nominet.org.uk