Folks, I manage a domain for a Society. Its registered in their name with me as the contact. But it appears Fasthosts ignore the actual details and so if anything happened to me the real owners would be unable to retain access. And if I give someone else access they could buy anything using my stored payment methods
Dave
If there is a question here ... move the registration from Fasthosts?
It's not an uncommon problem. Does the annual fee automatically get charged to your personal credit card, and you then claim it back from the society? Does the society have a credit or debit card? If so, change the payment arrangement so that the society pays directly. If not, investigate getting one. I was in a similar position until recently. Not long ago, my society signed up for a SumUp account so that we could accept card payments for sales and, potentially, for membership fees. The SumUp account included a current account and a debit card (which could be pre-loaded to allow purchases to be made with it). I was planning to arrange for the domain and other related internet costs to be paid for using the SumUp debit card - but the society was wound up before I got round to it. Something like that might perhaps work for you.
That's why we have top level domain managers., In extremis they could apply to have the domain transferred to them... If you didn't or couldn't reply as to why not, then it would be transferred.
Nominet is the UK authority.
Remember that - say - .uk domains are actually delegated to e.g. Fasthosts by Nominet, who have the technical power to remove that at an instant.
That is, the DNS process starts at the root servers around the world, that will tell you that anything ending in .uk can be looked up at a Nominet server. Once there Nominet will indicate that wally.org.uk is a domain that can be looked up at e.g. Fasthosts servers.
Who will hold the detail for MX, A and subdomain records for that domain.
The point being that if Nominet change their pointer to e.g,. 123 reg, that wher the world will go to find your domain details.
Death of the site administrator is a valid reason
A lot of people in the UK (including me) use .com domains and the authority for them is the wonderful ICANN. To change ownership, you need confirmation on the letterhead of the nominal registered party, and acknowledgement of an email sent to the registered contact address.
Note: DNS for the domain will be turned off until the email reply is received. I changed ownership of jretrading.com, had taken the precaution of using an email address in a different domain for contacts, and completely forgot that the MX record for the other domain was a jretrading.com address. Ooops...
Further note: A Microsoft email address is completely useless for discussing DNS problems, as they will not deliver the email and will blacklist you for 24 hours. I've had a Hotmail address for emergencies since before it was owned by MS.
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