domains

Take care when if you get a domain renewal letter in the post! You may find you get a letter that looks like a renewal letter for you domain. This is usually a rival to your current supplier trying to get you to transfer your domain to them. The first alarm bell is that it is a letter! Most domain companies will use email to notify you renewal is due. Second, it is more that £10 a year. (If your current supplier is charging you more than that, you probably want to transfer to a cheaper supplier anyway!)

We charge £10 per year per domain. You can get them cheaper, some companies even sell .co.uk domains at a loss, presumably cross subsidised by their hosting packages. There is something to be said for buying your domain from a different provider than your website provider. If you ever need to move suppliers you are in control.

When choosing a provider for your domains, you need to make sure that you can change the nameservers, or the DNS records if they don't allow change of nameserver. This means that you can point your domain to any mail and webserver you like and change it when you want to. If this sounds all horribly complicated then we can do all this for you, either buy the domain through us, transfer it to us, or give us log in details to your account so we can change the settings for you.

Also make sure there are no hidden charges, for example transfer out charges or premium rate support lines.

I would recommend Live to dot, OVH or godaddy for domain names. Live to dot have the best user interface for managing your domains. The OVH interface does not register changes straight away, although the changes are made after a small delay. OVH is cheapest, and they don't charge for transferring in .co.uks until the renewal is due. Others charge for the next 2 years on transfer. godaddy is more pricy now, especially with the poor exchange rate (thanks Gordon). I would not use godaddy for .co.uks.

All prices and exchange rates August 2010

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