.com registration and forwarding
.com registration and forwarding
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R4PID

Original Poster:

1,060 posts

276 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Starting a small business and would like a 'web presence'.

Don't expect much traffic, have got a banner free hosted site at the moment and built the basics using a nice/easy site builder program. Perfect for my needs. Looks semi-professional and doesn't have any annoying ads or pop-ups.

As I 'go live' though, I'd like a decent .com web domain and I'd like it to be forward to my free hosted solution.

Cheapest I've found so far is £5.38 a year with FX Domains. Seems cheap enough but I was wondering if I could do it any cheaper!

Zen.

794 posts

226 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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As always happy to recommend Jamie Beeston and http://register1.net/?tr=3

HRG

72,863 posts

270 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Why do you want a .com if you're in the UK?

JamieBeeston

9,294 posts

296 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Zen. said:
As always happy to recommend Jamie Beeston and http://register1.net/?tr=3
wink Cheers Zen!

£5.48 a yr for .com, but from a PH Supporting company wink

escargot

17,123 posts

248 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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For the sake of 10p, go with Register 1. Their support service is absolutely superb (especially for muppets like me and the mates I've referred).

ETA: To qualify that statement; 2 examples:

1) My company website & e-mail went down one morning so I submitted a help ticket. Within 2 minutes I had a response from someone saying the VDS it was located on was being DoS'ed and that they were working to mitigate it. Within 10 minutes the website & e-mails were back up and live.

2) My mate was being a numpty uploading a website. I couldn't figure out what he was doing wrong so whilst we were sat in the pub we submitted a help request. Within 20 minutes the chap had ascertained that indeed, my mate was a numpty and the problem was solved.

I personally wouldn't use/recommend anyone else.

Edited by escargot on Tuesday 7th April 11:42

nsa

1,704 posts

259 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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Another recommendation for register1.net. I've been with them for a year with no problems and they often reply to support tickets within the hour.

R4PID

Original Poster:

1,060 posts

276 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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JamieBeeston said:
Zen. said:
As always happy to recommend Jamie Beeston and http://register1.net/?tr=3
wink Cheers Zen!

£5.48 a yr for .com, but from a PH Supporting company wink
Jamie - sounds good. If I want to switch hosting to you as well at some point in the future then presumably that's easy to sort out as well?

ETA: Tis done. Mr Beeston, you have a new customer.

Edited by R4PID on Tuesday 7th April 12:40

JamieBeeston

9,294 posts

296 months

Tuesday 7th April 2009
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R4PID said:
JamieBeeston said:
Zen. said:
As always happy to recommend Jamie Beeston and http://register1.net/?tr=3
wink Cheers Zen!

£5.48 a yr for .com, but from a PH Supporting company wink
Jamie - sounds good. If I want to switch hosting to you as well at some point in the future then presumably that's easy to sort out as well?

ETA: Tis done. Mr Beeston, you have a new customer.

Edited by R4PID on Tuesday 7th April 12:40
smilebeer

Sure, you can just click the 'Upgrade to VDS' button and your account will instantly be upgraded to a VDS hosting Account!

Couldnt be easier :P

J