Domains

Don’t pay over the odds! And don't lock yourself in!

I can obtain your Domain name on your behalf from as little as £5.90¹ for two years renewable at £5.90 for every subsequent two years. I do not make a profit on Domain Name acquisition!

Unlike some other Domain administrators, I do not wrap up the provision of Domain Names with other (often binding) services, nor do I maintain "ownership" of the Domain or charge an annual maintenance fee for doing nothing (or very little). My clients own their Domain Name and retain full rights to it and its management. This is important!

Why? This saves my clients from the future potential pitfalls in transferring Domain Names from one holding/registration company to another. For example, users often obtain their Domain Names (sometimes for free) from Internet/Website Hosting companies by wrapping them up with other services, and it can be a costly struggle to get ownership of the Domain Name back when they wish to switch suppliers. Some have even plumped for a new Domain Name rather than wait the requisite transfer period and pay the usually expensive release fee; even also bearing the cost of changing all their stationery.

In my opinion Domain Names should always be kept completely separate from other services. One doesn't obtain a Company Name with other locked-in services, so why treat Domain Names any differently! Domain Names should not be tied to other services nor “owned” by anyone other than the person/organisation that ultimately paid for it!³

Depending on the website hosting service I often recommend that a domain name is registered specifically for housing the website(s) and other access domains are used to link to the hosting domain. In this way the domains are separated giving the user greater freedom to choose a hosting or domain supplier. After all, this freedom doesn't cost very much!

I charge only a one-off set-up and administration fee (to include initial Nominet² administration). There's no catch! There's nothing more to pay (except the periodic renewal cost) unless you require further maintenance services that I would quote for on a time and materials rate. I don’t see why my clients should pay me for anything other than the work I do!

I also think that once configured my clients can manage their own Domain Names and make any changes they wish. I’ll even show you how. It’s not a mystery! Remember you own the Domain, not I!

What you get:

Your Domain Name - if available
Your own management service at the Domain Name registration company
Website redirection with URL masking
Sub-domain redirection with URL masking
50 Email Addresses with individual redirection
A catch-all email address with redirection (or none)

(And don't forget that you should change your email client (e.g. Outlook) to reflect your new email address. So many do not!)

Why not contact me for a quotation before you look elsewhere!

Legend & small print bits!

¹Prices shown are for a "uk" Domain and are accurate at time of publication.
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²Nominet is the Internet Registry for ".uk" Domain Names.
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³The Domain Name registration service I use is a member of Nominet. It does provide other Internet/Hosting services but these are not a pre-requisite for the registration of a Domain Name and are therefore not associated. The company may charge a release fee for a Domain Name (as they provide the Domain service on their servers) but this should not be required as there is no other lock-in service.
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