Registering a Website name

How do you actually go about registering a website name and what sort of cost is involved? something ending in .co.uk?

I personally used Name Route for my brother-in-laws website I done for him. Very reasonable and NO ADDS....lol

i use
www.streamline.net

I use 1and1 never had no problems easy control panel aswel

Try doteasy.com. They're pretty cheap plus you get free hosting, plus website building tools

I registered my 2 with easily.co.uk (neither have a site associated with them, yet)

Easily's hosting is pay-as-you-go, i.e. you only pay for the bandwidth you use, ideal for a low traffic site like a family blog. Not really recommended for a high traffic, high bandwidth, commercial sites.

Other names include uk2.net, 1and1.co.uk, fasthosts.co.uk and easyspace.com (these are remembered from reading computer magazines and should not be viewed as a recommendation).

Some companies charge you for the domain but give you free basic hosting, others give you a free domain when you buy hosting from them. You're likely to get the best deal if you get both from the same firm.

If you are just having a personnal page, i.e. low traffic and non-commercial, then you've probably got hosting with your ISP anyway. You can then set your domain to either mask or forward to your site hosted by your ISP.

If you're after selling things or running a forum you'll need commercial hosting, as most ISPs won't allow you to run databases.

I use easily.co.uk as well. They are a tad more expensive than the others but the performance is excellent and their service second to none

I use Domain Registry of America.

www.droa.com

www.iyd.com

very easy to use

I use www.sitelutions.com

Very reliable, good prices, and Fast servers

I use oneandone for the address, and QiQ for the hosting. Both seem to work fine.

fatspanner said:

How do you actually go about registering a website name and what sort of cost is involved? something ending in .co.uk?

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i just bought a DJ site name .co.uk and it cost me £6.50 and they will auto renew it for me every 2 years

you will need to make sure you can edit the nameservers from whatever domain sellers you choose to go with... if you have to mail them for this then fook it off because this is important if you plan on buying a few domains.

hosting for a small site should cost you no more than £15 a month and that should be a pretty good shared host

cheapest aint always the best m8y i can assure you of this

Regards
Mickie D

namitha this post started over 2 years ago!!

I'm old skool and have always used 123-reg.co.uk