out-of-business registrar

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:12 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Tuesday 2005-September-27 21:55, mmccaws2 wrote:
> > we have a client who's domain registrar has gone out of business.
> > i-theta.com was the registrar.  Does anyone know what happens to
> > abandoned domains, as in are they acquired by other registrars.  If
> > so, how do I go about finding who has acquired the domain.  Or does
> > my customer just find another registrar? The domain in question is
> > ci.woodinville.wa.us.
> 
> That's a special use domain. Your customer (the city of Woodinville, 
> Washington USA) always and exclusively owns that domain. Start poking 
> around Neustar (the .US TLD registrar) and find out how to proceed. 
> This is not a commercial/private domain so the advice in the other 
> thread is not appropriate.

That may be but I believe you are very wrong about .us being special
use. See http://www.neustar.com/addressing/usDom.cfm 

As to changing registrars, this link should help the OP
http://www.neustar.us/register/index.html
-- 
G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
PATH tech