domains

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.

The cheapest provider for .co.uk domains at the moment is Lycos. If you take advantage of their first year for £1 offer, it is just £2.99 plus VAT for 2 years. Remember to click on the promotion code button during the payment process and enter the code UKDOM1 for the discount. We haven't used their hosting services, so we cannot recommend them. You still get the cheap domain even if you say no to the hosting options.

The next cheapest provider is 1 and 1. They provide .co.uk domains at £3.98 plus VAT.

Another provider used by one of our clients is low cost names. At £7.50 plus VAT they are more expensive and offer the same level of control.

.com .org and .net domain names are generally more expensive from UK providers. One of the best value is godaddy. They regularly offer promotional prices, and their full price $9.20 per year ($8.95 plus $0.25 ican fee) is excellent value. At the current exchange rate this is £4.68, with no VAT charged.

All prices and exchange rates December 2006

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