Ollie Cromwell

[Whois-Search]

As reported in the Times:

The domain name theredrag.co.uk was bought from Easily, one of Britain’s most successful website sellers. The company uses security systems to prevent abuse of its services, but this political ruse slipped under the radar. It checks, for example, whether postcodes match addresses.

Stuart Fuller, Easily business manager, said yesterday: “The postcode that has been entered here does match the address.

“If someone is registering a domain name they have to give correct credentials in terms of their address and their correct name. So by having a contact name of Ollie Cromwell and the address, it’s likely to be false.

Nominet UK, which oversees all domain names ending in .uk, has begun an investigation. The purchaser of the domain name had exploited a privacy rule that permitted “non-trading individuals” to keep their addresses off the public register. Businesses must list a contact address.

The use of the House of Commons address, and the misuse of the name of one of its historic heroes, will be highly damaging if the person who made the registration is shown to be a politician or aide. It was unclear whether the website purchaser had used a parliamentary e-mail address or Westminster telephone number. Nominet declined to make public any “personal data” about the operator.

Source: Commons link to Damian McBride smear site is red rag to David Cameron - Times Online

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According to records it is owned by one Ollie Cromwell and registered to the House of Commons. The list of suspects for who could be behind the pseudonym is fairly small. I'll leave you to take your pick. I'll content myself with revealing the sliver of good news for the mystery man. According to Matt Mansell at website registration firm domainmonster.com there could be a pay day in the offing: "A lot of value in domain names comes from what they have achieved in their lifetimes. The higher their profile, the better the search engine optimisation."
So if he ever comes out of the woodwork, the £5 of so he would paid to secure the name back in November could have grown quite nicely.

"I would have thought it would be in the £1000 to £10,000 range," says Matt.

Nice, but will it be enough to tempt Ollie out of the woodwork?

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-be-a-red-rag-to-an-internet-bull-market.html

Interesting case if you think about it....

Should the 'registrar' hand over the credit card information of who ever bought it?

Will this open the whole can of worms about validating whois information?

 

[rob]

£10k for that? I wonder what Mr Mansell would say a decent name is worth!?

 

[Systreg]

Nobody going to reg olliecromwell.co.uk then? :lol:

 

[doodlebug]

10k for that

Maybe the guy who tried seling StevieGerrad,co,uk could reg OllieCromwell,co,uk :lol:

Nice of Matt from Domain Monster to admit that Easily are cheaper then them

 

[aZooZa]

How can the registration be formally accepted with false credentials? Hence my post on 'Nom Steer' Andrew.

 

[GreyWing]

I think the point of false credentials should be dealt with after the event or a complaint Dale.

If someone is daft enough to build a brand name or domain on false details and they are daft enough to lose it, then that's their problem

What I hope is that if someone complains against false details on a name, it isn't just transferred to a correct name via Nom. They should instantly turn it off and put it back to market via the drop system.

However what would be over the top is if nom started to ask for ID before from everyone before taking reg requests for names.

 

[aZooZa]

I think the point of false credentials should be dealt with after the event or a complaint Dale.

If someone is daft enough to build a brand name or domain on false details and they are daft enough to lose it, then that's their problem

What I hope is that if someone complains against false details on a name, it isn't just transferred to a correct name via Nom. They should instantly turn it off and put it back to market via the drop system.

However what would be over the top is if nom started to ask for ID before from everyone before taking reg requests for names.

I fully agree with you. This is such an obvious bad-faith registration that the turnaround/defense should be almost instantaneous. Like e.g. ebay.name or paypal.name -- no brainer really. My question is about all the controversy/debate over a daft registration which Nominet will with no doubt deal with. Why all the 'huff and puff' on Nom-Steer? As I suggested on that forum, members have more important issues to debate; ergo the DAC T&Cs... I think it's shocking that Nom have sidelined this and not given a date for an announcement.

 

[GreyWing]

Yep totally agree, I actually thought they had pulled my nomsteer subscription it's been quiet for over a month.

I agree I think that nominet.name issue is over reacting, maybe they are waiting for the next PAB before changing the T&C's relating to the DAC