Floating Homes. Gone bust or ceased trading?

[Cruisin']

When I try to connect to the Floating Homes web-site http://www.floating-homes.co.uk/ I get the error message :-

 

"www.floating-homes.co.uk could not be found. Please check the name and try again."

 

Up to a few weeks ago it was possible to connect to their web site via that address..

 

Does anybody know if they have gone bust or ceased trading?

 

They owe me money, (Jon this is contained in correspondence sent to me where F/H promise to pay to me " as agreed", therefore provable ). I have sent a 'Final Demand ' letter. If they are bust there's no point in me pursuing them. If they have ceased trading and are solvent I will obviously pursue my money.

 

Trying to contact Floating Homes - unless ordering a boat, has always been difficult.

 

Any information regarding them will be appreciated.

Edited April 18, 2009 by Cruisin'

[bottle]

Your link works for me and it can also be connected to via a google search.

 

Floating Homes , has been mentioned a few times on here, perhaps a search (top right) may be helpful

[Boatless]

That site cannot be looked up as the domain is suspended ( and requires renewal). The registry entry expired 2nd March 2009.

[Cruisin']

Your link works for me and it can also be connected to via a google search.

 

If the domain is suspended and needs renewal how can this be ? See the post from Boatless following your own post.

[Keeping Up]

If the domain is suspended and needs renewal how can this be ? See the post from Boatless following your own post.

Maybe a locally-cached copy of the page?

[paulcatchpole]

If the domain is suspended and needs renewal how can this be ? See the post from Boatless following your own post.

 

For reference, the whois record looks like this:

coloxen1 ~ # whois floating-homes.co.uk

 

Domain name:

floating-homes.co.uk

 

Registrant:

D & B Darke Ltd

 

Trading as:

Floating Homes Ltd

 

Registrant type:

Unknown

 

Registrant's address:

Nene Narrowboat Centre

Lime Kiln Lane

Stilton

Peterborough

Cambs

Unknown

PE7 3SA

GB

 

Registrar:

Zetnet Limited [Tag = ZETNET]

URL: http://www.zetnet.com

 

Relevant dates:

Registered on: 02-Mar-2001

Renewal date: 02-Mar-2009

Last updated: 19-Mar-2007

 

Registration status:

Renewal required.

*** This registration has been SUSPENDED. ***

 

Name servers:

ns.zetnet.co.uk

ns1.zetnet.co.uk

 

WHOIS lookup made at 19:15:56 18-Apr-2009

[bottle]

If the domain is suspended and needs renewal how can this be ? See the post from Boatless following your own post.

 

I do not know, sorry.

 

It is now unavailable though, I have never been to the site before, so it could not have been cached on my computer.

[Cruisin']

Anybody know if they've gone bust or still trading?

[Oliver1954]

Try contacting them through this Link,Floating Homes appear to be part of this group of "Companies" !

 

I hope that is of some use to you.

[Cruisin']

Try contacting them through this Link,Floating Homes appear to be part of this group of "Companies" !

 

I hope that is of some use to you.

 

I'll try phoning DB Darke on Monday and see if they can tell me the current position. I was told last year, by a Floating Homes director, that Darke no longer had any connection with them. But, it's worth a telephone call to find out; thanks.

[Josh and Sabrina]

DB Darke own the yard out of which Floating Homes operate. Floating Homes rent space on the yard but are not owned by Darke, and as far as I am aware are still trading. There has been some dispute recently between Floating Homes and DB Darke, but I don't know if the website was down because of the dispute, or something else.

Regardless, the website appears to be up again.