.com .net .co.uk
About URLS.
I'm going to buy some. I was planing on getting a .com one. But is it worth also getting the .net and maybe even the .co.uk of the same name.
I'm going to buy some. I was planing on getting a .com one. But is it worth also getting the .net and maybe even the .co.uk of the same name.
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...the only time that falls down is if another limited company has a similar name and can also lay claim to it, then it's first come first serve.
Course, this could all have changed since I last read about it.
It's good idea though to have both the .co.uk and the .com domains, since you can then trap all those stray emails that are suffixed incorrectly...especially if you have clients located overseas.
I reckon for a UK company you should have it covered with the .co.uk, backed up with the .com for a more "global" feel.
Just my opinion on these matters though, but when I had my own business the most common problem was emails being sent to me at a .com - this became a thing of the past when I stretched to acquiring that suffix.
What do you mean by that?
Please get back to me quickly as I'm just about to buy 6 domains via GoDaady.
http://www.networksolutions.com/
theres where everyone has to deal with
if you have any probs with your webspace provider , they can carry on "funny" with domain names.. if it's via network solutions.. they don't have that leverage..
Network Solutions can't do that.
GoDaddy is selling the domains I want at ?3.90 a year. Network Solutions want ?35 ish.???
unless it's changed, it should be via NS.
and they buy in bulk so get a discount I guess.
personally I wouldn't use a company that I host a site with.. I think it was discussed on here and others were of the same mindset
?35 sounds about right..
I have somthing I've been working on for years and feel it needs its own web address rather than being hosted at my institution which for the record has managed to loose my site tragic by messing up my sub domain, and dispute repeated calls fail to sort out the problem.
I also want my own website and possibly one for my wife who is an artist.
You know I could be wrong, but I'm beginning to think this maybe a little inaccurate. Network solutions used to be the only provider of URLs, but it got opened out in the early 00's. Is it not iCANN that actually do the registration and not Network Solutions?
[edit]No actually you may be right, I see that NS is in fact a company of two halves. However, the public domain selling side might as well be considered a separate entity from its older other half. I believe this puts it a little extra advantage over GoDaddy and for the extra cost it simply is not worth it.[/edit]
They are some $10 per year, which probably amounts to 0.025 UKP these days.
I've used them for all my domains, including worldofspectrum.org, for the past 10 years and never had a single problem in all of these years...
Edit: apparently they also provide DNS service for you now if you wish.
Can you elaborate on provide your own domain name servers?
I would only get the additional domain names if you're overly concerned about the commercial value of the domain name. Personally I've settled twice for a .com domain and didn't care about anything else.
A domain name server basically does the translation between a domain name and an IP address, e.g. translating "www.worldofspectrum.org" to "194.109.216.226" and vice versa.
Other things it does is tell which mail server handles the mail for this domain, etc.
As you can guess, this is a rather fundamental service to make the internet work.
One could run his own DNS server(s), as I do, but it's generally easier to let someone else provide these. GoDaddy does this for you, but domain.com seems to do that as well these days.
Usually it depends on your hosting plan - if it comes with a domain name (such as what GoDaddy offers), all of the work is taken away from you so you don't have to bother with it. But then, you're stuck with your provider forever, as they generally won't cooperate if you decide to change hosting providers...
I did some research on that and found plenty enough people that said transferring from GoDaddy was simple and hassle free.
.com and .org would be ?9 a year.
I run one from home using dyndns for the DNS services and the rest are hosted with 1&1.
Previously I have had a couple of domains from 1&1 which started hosted with them and were moved to other hosting providers with no issues or hassle at all. Also I know a couple of people who moved there domains to 1&1 from other hosting with no hassle.
Many many years ago I had a domain through Network Solutions and it gave me no advantages whatsoever which is why I moved. "I" am the registered owner not 1&1 so I can host it anywhere I want.
This isn't an advert for 1&1 (although I would recommend them from by experience both on price and a generally trouble free life) as I think most hosting companies are similar nowadays and I see no good reason to pay network solutions OTT prices for no appreciable gain.
Interesting I got .com for ?3.90 a year, and .co.uk for ?6.10 a year.
I get you I new what DNS was but didn't know it was practical to run them for ones own two to three website set ups.
Not entirely true... you have to prove you have the right to the domain...
Book through me and I will make sure the domain exists and won't over-charge for booking... and I will provide hosting too
yes my surname too is Lee
yes, but Foggy's isn't :p
was funny a friend went over to Ireland.. and goes jeez I saw your name about 5 places I went.
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/com-domain-names-for-1-year-only-72p-using-voucher-code-go-daddy/882876