Domain Names & Hosting What do you need to know?

A domain name is the bit after the www. in your web address.

Domain names should be easy to remember, they are made up of letters and/or numbers.

Domain names come in two parts, separated by a dot. The part to the right of the dot is called the top-level domain for example .co.uk, .net, .com etc.. Once you decide on your domain name and checked it is available you must register it with a domain registrar in your name which is extremely important.

Why do we register all domain names in your name?

When you purchase a domain name it is vital that you register it in your name to avoid potential problems in future. If it is registered in lets say your web designers name they own it Not you.

This means if you decide in future that you want to change web designers it may not be as easy as you think, it might involve reprinting of all your stationary and loss of many customers who know your site address. How about if you have built up a good position on search engines you could lose this.

This may seem to be a simple mistake but it is made by thousands of businesses on a regular basis.

If your not sure drop us an email and we will check registration details for you.

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£60.00 gets you a professional email setup, domain name and 1 years hosting with up to 5 email boxes, and is easily upgraded to a full website hosting package.

Why register a domain name?

It looks a lot more impressive on your business card and is easier for customers to remember. If you don’t register your business name now someone else could. It protects your business name space Even if you do not require a website straight away its worth registering a domain name now, to be used as your business email address eg. whatever@yourcompany.co.uk

This will make you look like a reputable business to potential new customers. Its not often advisable to use one of the free email services or an online service like AOL or HOTMAIL as your business email address. Typically businesses that use an email address ending in hotmail.com or aol.com for example will be dismissed by many potential new customers. Having your own domain name simply for email makes sense and costs very little, so make choosing and registering a good domain name one of your first projects.

This does not mean you have to stop using your existing email. and set up a new one. An email address that uses your own domain name can be set up to forward mail to any address you like.

Email address warning

Do not post your email address on your website, forum, chat room etc.. Basically you are asking for spam/junk emails. Address harvesters will pick up your email details and add it to large numbers of junk mail lists.

What is hosting?

Hosting is basically space on the World Wide Web where your website is stored. The space is “rented” from a web hosting company. Once your website is placed on your rented web space it can be viewed on the Internet by anyone with a web browser around the world. Hosting is how you make your website available so that everyone can see it.

Hosting Advice

Many businesses often choose the cheapest web hosting they can find. We have found through experience and talking to our customers the cheapest or the most expensive is not normally the best choice. Price normally has no bearing how well a web host will perform.

We provide reliable web hosting at competitive prices.

If you are currently paying more that £100.00 per year for hosting then you may find we can offer you the same or more for less.

You can purchase both Domain Names and Hosting services from us direct at competitive prices right now so why not give us a call.

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Personal Email Address

Get your own personalised .co.uk email address. Instead of being forced to use a long, complicated and difficult to remember address you can have a personal email address that's short, simple and unique.

Your personal email address can be accessed from any computer in the world. There is nothing to set up on your computer, the entire set-up process is simple and easy.

£25.00 per year.

You choose to have whatever name you want or dream up, it can be funny or your family name for example.

You@anythingyouwant.co.uk

Subject to your choice being available.

For further information about a personal email address give us a call now.

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