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QUESTION: Why is www.Cheap--Domain--Names.com listed as the registrant of my domain on a Whois lookup?

ANSWER:

When you do a 'Whois' search it is important to pay attention to where you are searching for the information. A registrar is a company licensed through ICANN (www.Icann.org) to record domain registrations on behalf of a customer. Network Solutions, Tucows, and Register are some of our competitors. If you do a 'Whois' query from one of their servers, they are only required to tell you the name of the registrar through which the domain was acquired. They are not required to tell you the registrant of the domain.

The assumption is that if a person knows the name of the registrar, the rest is easy to find out by going to the registrar's site and doing a search there. To perform a search using our server, go to WhoIs and type in your domain. When you do a search on your domain, you receive a message stating that the domain is already taken. You would then click on more information and see that you are the registrant.