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A DETAGGED domain name is a UK domain whose status has been
changed from active, and assigned to a Nominet member such
as ourselves, to being inactive and not assigned (or 'tagged')
with a member's tag.
All UK domains such as .co.uk, .org.uk or .net.uk are registered
with the UK domain registry, Nominet.
Nominet itself however does not deal with end registrants
who have a domain. Instead, Nominet has some 400 members whom
they trust to manage domain registrations, backorders and
billing on their behalf. Whichever member you register the
domain with initially is responsible for this process, including
that of renewal at the end of a domain's term of registration.
They also have to retag the domain to someone else if you
which to change the member responsible.
If a domain comes to the end of that term (a 2 year period)
and the member who is the 'tag holder' - cannot make contact
with the registrant or the registrant no longer wants the
domain, they will "detag" it, meaning that it no
longer has a member associated with it. In this state, it
also no longer has any DNS server with it and so no active
functions can happen with it (eg WWW or email).
In this case, the domain will soon expire completely and
be returned to the pool of domains available for registration.
If you would like to register a domain in this state then
you have two options - a) to check manually every so often
(at least once a day) if the domain is yet available and try
to register it themselves, or b) backorder the domain through
name:warden and rest easy in the knowledge that the best efforts
are being made to register the domain for you - without you
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