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I'm guessing it was this lady....
(from a whois query)

Registrant:
  Lisa Seaman
  1621 Haight Street
  Apt 26
  San Francisco, CA 94117
  US

  Domain name: NOWHERE.COM

  Administrative Contact:
        Seaman, Lisa ThinkAboutItForASecond@yahoo.com
        1621 Haight Street
        Apt 26
        San Francisco, CA 94117
        US
        +1.4155334619
  Technical Contact:
        Seaman, Ted ItIsYouWhoAreMistaken@yahoo.com
        1621 Haight Street
        Apt 26
        San Francisco, CA 94117
        US
        +1.4155334619

  Registration Service Provider:
        Jump Domain
        http://www.jumpdomain.com/

  Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
  Record last updated on 31-Jan-2006.
  Record expires on 22-Dec-2007.
  Record created on 21-Dec-1994.

  Domain servers in listed order:
        PARKING1.JUMPDOMAIN.NET 69.30.210.35
        PARKING2.JUMPDOMAIN.NET 69.30.210.36
        PARKING3.JUMPDOMAIN.NET 69.30.210.37
        PARKING4.JUMPDOMAIN.NET 69.30.210.38

  Domain status: REGISTRAR-LOCK

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"The ownership of Jump Domain still vests in it's founder."
and
"For security reasons, we cannot disclose it's exact address."

I'd say that is pretty likely:

http://www.jumpdomain.com/about.html
Ownership:
The ownership of Jump Domain still vests in it's founder. He is active in the day-to-day operations handling most communications with customers. He holds a Bachelors Degree and a Jurist Doctor (Law) Degree.

They've been really responsive when I've suggested features or had a question, typically responding in under an hour business days, and same day even on Sundays.

I don't know if they have an e-mail interface, but after NetSol, I sure as hell don't miss that. The web interface is nice, letting you apply changes to one or all domains at once, view domains sorted by expiry date, and there are no locks on company names like NetSol and all have or had.

Dear Customer:

Network Solutions, Inc. ("NSI") has received a request to transfer your domain name from NSI to another Registrar. This is to notify you that the transfer request has been approved by NSI and was sent to the Registry for processing.

Please contact REGISTRAR@NETSOL.COM if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Registrar Change Group
Network Solutions, Inc.

Good bye NSI, hello JumpDomain and OpenSRS!

Someone above asked for a List of OpenSRS affiliates (i.e. resellers). I have been trying to do the same, but never could get such a list, despite extensive searches.

Note that the Domain Name Buyers Guide does not cover any OpenSRS affiliate yet.

Last week, I decided to ask OpenSRS themselves, and opened a sales ticket and a support ticket. The support guy gave me the usual run around ("Our reseller list is confidential", "we cannot release such info", "try a web search").

The sales person was more helpful and gave me a list of five resellers:

• http://www.nal.qc.ca
• http://www.msnhosting.com
• http://internationalwebhostingservices.c om
• http://www.islelink.com
• http://www.msquaredweb.net

Independantly, I tried searching for such info myself. Here is what I found:

• JumpDomain 14.99$ a year.
• DiscountDomainRegistry 14.99$ a year.
• DomainMonger 17$ a year.
• Processing Innovations 15$ a year. I am not sure if they are OpenSRS or not. Some (see above) have objected to their agreement, since they can terminate the domain, ...etc.
• Domains JH Cloos
• . Again not sure if he is OpenSRS or not. He offers domains for 12.50$. You cannot pay by credit card and need
• e-gold.

In case you are wondering, if your reseller goes out of business (many of them are small operations or a one-man-shows), then OpenSRS will be the registrar. The sales person told me they would help me find another registrar should this happen.

I am willing to maintain a list of OpenSRS resllers that offer cheap (20$ or less per year) domain registrations. If you find more, please let me know. You can contact me via the web site above or via 2bits.com (fill a contact form) or you can e-mail me at khalidATbaheyeldinDOTcom.

As a related issue, I have been looking for a PHP port of the OpenSRS library (Yeah, I am a Perl-Hater!), so I can implement it myself, shell out the 250$ minimum needed for being an Open SRS reseller, then I can provide domain registry for friends, family and clients. However, there is no such port planned by OpenSRS.org, and one reseller (forget which one) has a library that is working in every aspect except the encryption stuff.

Julz (who you calling yella?)

I have done a little, really small, amount of research into this and the two companies that I have contacted will both do a transfer of a domain for you and can't see that there should be any problem with transferring domains from Internic, provided you're all paid up with Internic. All they need to do is change the registrar for the domain and charge you for 1 year plus they give you the balance remaining on the domain currently.

The two companies are JumpDomain and Gandi.

Gandi costs 12euro, about $12US per year and the transfer is free plus you get the credited for the balance of the domain. Gandi is also an accredited registrar with ICANN.

JumpDomain offers basically the same for $14.99US per year, except their conditions are a little less forgiving. You still own the domain though, unlike NSI. They are not an accredited registrar, but they use TUCOWS OpenSRS who apparently are and they say they are an RSP of TUCOWS.

I haven't transferred my domains as yet, as I'm waiting for some my information from Gandi about minimum transactions.

Hope this helps. :-)

http://www.jumpdomain.com/ is only 15$ per year, they use OpenSRS.org (for 8$-12$ per year), so the administration is easy and nice. registration by credit card is immediate. very personal service answering fast.

i know several people that are waiting since weeks for totalnic to fix some domains that are in limbo there. ugly.

kind regards philippe, http://A-Z-Internet.com/dns/