OT Best place for a Domain Name?

I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
to go to?

Thanks

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:28:20 +0100, "Fatbøy øf the Underwørld"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
>to go to?
>

I believe these guys have a top class reputation.
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/default.asp

Only downside is they're not UK based.

Fatbøy øf the Underwørld wrote:
> I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
> to go to?

What do you plan to do with that domain name?
(i.e. mail for you, mail for several people, mail for an entire org, basic web
forwarding (to an existing site via a frameset) or web hosting, or just
providing DNS A lookups for 'www.yourdmain.co.uk')

What root registry?
(a .uk, or one of the basic TLD's, (.com, .org, .net))

If .uk, there are many that will provide you with a basic service, including
mail forwarding (but not mail hosting (i.e. forward to some other account))
basic web site forwarding (i.e. www.yourdomain.co.uk will forward to
http://www.someIspHostingService.net...ace/index.html )

123-reg.co.uk provide the above, plus basic DNS control (so you can change A,
CNAME, and MX entries), plus mail forwarding for a colossal £2.99/year or
thereabouts for .*.uk

Many other domain registrars are available.

If you want full rDNS for your home network, you are probably better off talking
to your ISP. If your ISP deals predominantly with the general public (i.e. AOL,
Tiscali, ntlworld, etc.) then you might as well try and herd cats.

I currently have a .co.uk via 123-reg which I manage for my parents, which is
just forwarding to a supanet email address. I also have a .net which is managed
by Fast24 via domainbuster.com which I use predominantly for email. A .org.uk
in the same place, mainly for web page redirection, and another .org.uk with my
ISP, which provides me with full DNS and rDNS for my home /28 network.

The registration via 123-reg worked instantly, although it may not have
propogated worldwide quite so fast, domainbuster were a little slower, and do
not respond to problems particularly fast by email (but I can telephone them,
which got the one fault I had in six years sorted). Domainbuster updates via
email can also be a little slow, but email hosting/forwarding is managed via
qmailadmin, providing mail list management, autoresponders, etc., and they
provide basic webmail (via squirrelmail) which works well enough.

My home network is via AAISP, consequently I could run my own DNS servers if I
really wanted to, but theirs work just as well. I've not used their mail
service as of yet.

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:56:36 +0100, Jim Howes
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Fatbøy øf the Underwørld wrote:
>> I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
>> to go to?
>
>What do you plan to do with that domain name?
>(i.e. mail for you, mail for several people, mail for an entire org, basic web
>forwarding (to an existing site via a frameset) or web hosting, or just
>providing DNS A lookups for 'www.yourdmain.co.uk')
>
>What root registry?
>(a .uk, or one of the basic TLD's, (.com, .org, .net))
>
>If .uk, there are many that will provide you with a basic service, including
>mail forwarding (but not mail hosting (i.e. forward to some other account))
>basic web site forwarding (i.e. www.yourdomain.co.uk will forward to
>http://www.someIspHostingService.net...ace/index.html )
>
>123-reg.co.uk provide the above, plus basic DNS control (so you can change A,
>CNAME, and MX entries), plus mail forwarding for a colossal £2.99/year or
>thereabouts for .*.uk
>
>Many other domain registrars are available.
>
>If you want full rDNS for your home network, you are probably better off talking
>to your ISP. If your ISP deals predominantly with the general public (i.e. AOL,
>Tiscali, ntlworld, etc.) then you might as well try and herd cats.
>
>I currently have a .co.uk via 123-reg which I manage for my parents, which is
>just forwarding to a supanet email address. I also have a .net which is managed
>by Fast24 via domainbuster.com which I use predominantly for email. A .org.uk
>in the same place, mainly for web page redirection, and another .org.uk with my
>ISP, which provides me with full DNS and rDNS for my home /28 network.
>
>The registration via 123-reg worked instantly, although it may not have
>propogated worldwide quite so fast, domainbuster were a little slower, and do
>not respond to problems particularly fast by email (but I can telephone them,
>which got the one fault I had in six years sorted). Domainbuster updates via
>email can also be a little slow, but email hosting/forwarding is managed via
>qmailadmin, providing mail list management, autoresponders, etc., and they
>provide basic webmail (via squirrelmail) which works well enough.
>
>My home network is via AAISP, consequently I could run my own DNS servers if I
>really wanted to, but theirs work just as well. I've not used their mail
>service as of yet.

One simple test of finding a good registrar for your Domain requirements is to
determine how difficult, and maybe costly, it is to move your Domain name from
one registrar to another and the probably time scale. The procedure is very
different if it is a top level domain like .net, .com, compared, to say .co.uk

If the registrar is any good it will be a simple without cost transfer even if
you have been with them for a few days or many years. The transfer should take
no more than 10 days, often much quicker.

DCB

On 13 Sep 2006, David Bradley <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>One simple test of finding a good registrar for your Domain requirements is to
>determine how difficult, and maybe costly, it is to move your Domain name from
>one registrar to another and the probably time scale. The procedure is very
>different if it is a top level domain like .net, .com, compared, to say .co.uk

Fortunately hardly any firms charge a fee for "Transfer out" these days and
I have only ever seen that on a .uk domain anyway. For transfers of most
of the popular TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .info) any transfer has a fee which
is payable to the new registration firm, but best read up on the details a
transfer might require (authentication codes for some TLDs). Surely it's a
bit "premature" to be discussing the transfer of a domain before one has
even been registered, though, remembering that any .uk is valid for 2 yrs.

>If the registrar is any good it will be a simple without cost transfer even if
>you have been with them for a few days or many years. The transfer should
>take no more than 10 days, often much quicker.

ICANN rules prevent a transfer of a domain within the first 60 days from
being registered which would make this impossible for .com/net/org/info/biz

On 13 Sep 2006 "Fatbøy øf the Underwørld" wrote:

>I'm looking to get a Domain Name ...

for .org.uk or .co.uk (or .me.uk perhaps) I'd suggest www.123reg.co.uk
or www.ukreg.com or even www.just-the-name.co.uk (or www.easily.co.uk
or www.1and1.co.uk ) These typically charge 10 pounds or less.

You can get a domain registered with webspace and a POP mailbox as well,
for under 15 pounds (for 2 years) at www.nameroute.co.uk (some of the
earlier ones allow you to "point" to ISP-provided webspace if you want to).

For .com, .org, .net I'd expect to pay under US$ 7 per year, and up to $3
for the first year if registering a .info domain. Look at the US websites,
not the UK sites, for those domains (compare www.hostway.co.uk and
www.hostway.com for any .com/org/net/info domains ) another worth
a check is www.ipowerweb.com (but depends how much you already
know about setting up DNS entries to be able to use other hosting
for the domain once registered). Best of luck!

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"Fatbøy øf the Underwørld" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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> I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
> to go to?

Others may disagree, but for me, 1&1 every time. I also utilise their email
services, which i have found to be flawless. I believe their support may be
a little questionable and is not the quickest around, if you need it, which
i generally don't.

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 20:01:33 +0100, "Tx2"
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>
>"Fatb? the Underw? <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>in message news:zJ-(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
>> to go to?
>
>Others may disagree, but for me, 1&1 every time. I also utilise their email
>services, which i have found to be flawless. I believe their support may be
>a little questionable and is not the quickest around, if you need it, which
>i generally don't.

I use them for 7 or 8 domains. Three of which have have the zonefiles
managed by 1&1, five of which I manage (via zoneedit). I wouldn't want
to have domains on 1&1 where you'd need to edit the zonefile as
getting them to do ANYTHING with it is painful.

For the rest of the 1&1 hosting - its cheap, it pretty much does what
it says on the tin and if you don't know what a zonefile or a mx is
then Bob's your father's brother

I've had no significant downtime on domains/sites there in the last 2
years. I wouldn't dream of using them as a business supplier though
--
John Naismith

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:28:20 +0100, "Fatbøy øf the Underwørld"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm looking to get a Domain Name and was wondering which is the best place
>to go to?
>
>Thanks
>

How about NetKKKop Number One???? { ; - ))

Morph.


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On 13 Sep 2006 John Naismith wrote:

>I've had no significant downtime on domains/sites there in the last 2
>years. I wouldn't dream of using them as a business supplier though

Nor me, in part because Google will probably (*) not classify sites as
being in the UK (so someone ticking the "pages from the UK" on Google
will not get matches unless via AdWord payment).

(*) I don't know any 1and1-hosted sites to traceroute to, sorry.