For those of you that do not know, Nominet, the domain regsitry for all .uk domain names introduced a new ' Data Quality Policy' whereby all registered domains need the registrants name, address and contact details to be verfied. The verification proccess is a legal requirement and where it is not provided your domain could be suspended after 30 days. And after 60 days, released back to the open market.

We register the majoriy of our clients domains for them, however, have come accross issues whereby domains registered by clients a number of years ago have not been verified, meaning their domain was suspended until we were able to resolve the issue for them.

To avoid any problems:

When registering a domain and filling out your contact details, you must make sure that the information provided is accurate and in the following format:

Registrant Name (first + last name)

• A valid, registrant name (your name) must be used
• The name must contain at least 4 characters and of these, 3 or more must be letters.

Address Format

• Your street name must contain non-numeric information (not just a number)
• Your town or city
• Your country
• Your Post Code

Phone Number Format

• A phone number must be supplied, and must be in the following format:
• Begin the number with a “+”
• Followed with a country code e.g. +44, +33, +1)
• And the actual digits after country code (without any initial ‘0’)

Email Format

• Email provided must be valid - we recommend an address you use regularly
• Must contain an’@’
• End with a valid TLD (Top Level Domain) e.g. co.uk, .com
• Contain at least one character before the “@”
• Must not have any trailing or leading spaces

More information and 'how to validate existing domains' can be found on the Nominet website

If you are having a problem with validation please do not hesitate to contact us