How do I find out who is responsible for my email?

[Paul Wakefield]

I acquired one of my email addresses years ago (ending .sagehost.co.uk) from Sage the accounting software house when they were hosting such things. They subsequently sold this off to an oufit called Sonnet who, as far as I can tell, subsequently went bust.

The email address still works fine though with a few hiccoughs recently. But I have absolutely no idea who hosts the address. How do I find out?

FWIW The server addressess are: pophost1.sagehost.co.uk and mailhost.sagehost.co.uk

Paul

 

[Clive]

Hmm, you may have a problem at the end of April ...

Whois lookup gives...

NetTools Whois query



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whois -h co.uk.whois.demon.net sagehost.co.uk

Domain name: sagehost.co.uk


Registrant:
Sage Software Ltd

Registrant type:
Not supplied

Administrative contact's address:
Planet Online
Melbourne Street
Leeds
England
LS2 7PX

Registrant's agent:
NetNames Limited [Tag = NETNAMES]
URL: http://www.netnames.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 27-Apr-1999
Renewal date: 27-Apr-2007
Last updated: 01-Apr-2005

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
dns-master-2.netaccessgroup.net
dns-slave-3.netaccessgroup.net

WHOIS lookup made at 17:39:24 15-Jan-2007

 

[Paul Wakefield]

Clive,

Thanks. This site is really great -you found out more in 5 minutes than I have Googling for an hour or so.

I see what you mean about April - interesting. Not sure where I go from here -Planet Online is defunct or absorbed somewhere. I think I'll tackle Sage as they have the most to lose (and are also the only organisation involved that still seems to exist )

Paul

 

[shugie]

Clive,

Thanks. This site is really great -you found out more in 5 minutes than I have Googling for an hour or so.

I see what you mean about April - interesting. Not sure where I go from here -Planet Online is defunct or absorbed somewhere. I think I'll tackle Sage as they have the most to lose (and are also the only organisation involved that still seems to exist )

Paul

Planet Online became part of Energis, which was taken over by Cable and Wireless (who my grandad worked for in the 1930s, so they've been around a while) which had previously sold its consumer ISP stuff to NTL. Cable and Wireless seem to be mainly doing corporate business these days, but might well have some corporate customers still using the Planet Online/Energis identities.