Who hosts your school sch.uk domain?

[Oaktech]

Another +1 for TSOHost They also host our non .sch.uk stuff at an appreciable discount.

[StephenPink]

Hi,

 

I just jumped on Nominet support chat, explained what we are trying to do as an organization and they have created the account for me:

 

1. create Nominet account https://webchat.nominet.uk//?host=www.nominet.uk

2. ask headteachers at all your schools to sign, scan and email transfer letter over to Nominet domainsupport AT support.nominet.uk (template below)

Nominet UK

Minerva House

Edmund Halley Road

Oxford Science Park

Oxford

OX4 4DQ

 

September 01, 2023

 

Dear Sir/Madam,

 

As authorizing authority for SCHOOL NAME, I request that responsibility for the domain name schooldomain.sch.uk be transferred to YOUR ORGANIZATION NAME - NOMINET@ACCOUNT account.

 

Warm Regards,

 

.…………………

Miss/Mrs/Ms/ [headteacher's name]

Headteacher

 

SCHOOL ADDRESS

3. Nominet will contact schools to confirm the transfer and will ask for headteachers proof of ID,

4. once above is done, you will see domains in your nominet dashboard

5. From Nominet dashboard, you can change registrar (nameserver?) to e.g. cloudflare, namecheap etc. - I haven't done this part yet and will speak to Nominet before I make any further changes but I can see all transferred domains in my Nominet dashboard/portal. Currently, some have LEA IT Services, some namecheap, some cloudflare as registrars.

Hope this helps

 

Did this for one site - and went through the £10 charge to change registrar to Cloudflare (as I had set that up for DNS anyway) - however it wouldn't go through. Don't think Cloudflare can support .sch.uk for some reason?

[MicrodigitUK]

Did this for one site - and went through the £10 charge to change registrar to Cloudflare (as I had set that up for DNS anyway) - however it wouldn't go through. Don't think Cloudflare can support .sch.uk for some reason?

 

Nominet has it’s own TAG and can be the registrar for a free sch.uk domain. When Nominet is set to the registrar you get the DNS server options for the domain inside your Nominet account(Registered email for the Nominet web portal, that lists all domains under your email address), and you simply set that DNS to point to Cloudflare.

 

As your sch.uk domain is free to each individual UK school, Nominet will accept you onto there own internal registrar TAG if you ask at the same time as proving ownership with the letter on headed paper from the headteacher.

Edited November 1, 2023 by MicrodigitUK