I want to register a domain name for my bands website. Any one have any advice as to who's best to go through (as it's a bit complex to go through nominet directly!) or are they much of a muchness?

 

Cheers,

 

Leigh.

Much the same mate, but we do ours through http://www.1and1.co.uk as we also have the missus website with them. Domain registration is just a case of going on the site and ordering it. Very quick and easy. The hosting service has been quite reasonable for us. The foreign call centers are sometimes annoying but they usually sort things out quickly.

mine was a fiver from "netbenefit" for 2 years, if you are hosting your site elsewhere it is just a case of pointing the DNSA towards the hosters address.

Thanks guys. Will get it sorted (though pointing things at DNSA's fills me with technophobic dread! ;))

if you buy your domain name from net benefit or any provider really, get the dnsa number from the company you are hosting your site from and it will either explain on the domain providers site how to do it. Or in some cases if you email the domain provider they will actually do it for you.

http://www.nameroute.co.uk

 

I deal a lot with these guys, very good company and UK based.

Much the same mate, but we do ours through http://www.1and1.co.uk as we also have the missus website with them. Domain registration is just a case of going on the site and ordering it. Very quick and easy. The hosting service has been quite reasonable for us. The foreign call centers are sometimes annoying but they usually sort things out quickly.

 

I'll second the recommendation to use 1and1.co.uk. Have been with them for three years and have 7 websites hosted there. As Royal said, the foreign call centres can be a pain but they do get it sorted and will follow up every e-mail support request.

 

Good luck Leigh!

 

Dan

Thanks for the help guys, much appreciated! I spent a couple of hours last night looking into domain name providers and different hosting options and, regarding the former, after reading several good comments on their level of customer service and competitive pricing, I went with 123-reg. To my pleasant suprise, after I had decided to go with them I also found that if you bought a .com for 2 years you got a .co.uk thrown in for free, so I'm now the proud owner of http://www.kyotounderground.com and www.kyotounderground.co.uk! Just got to figure out how the hell to get a website together now! Lol! :wack: :D (mind you, I've recently started playing with Gif animation for my MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/kyotounderground Hopefully I'll be able to use them in the website somewhere when I've tidied them up a bit....the banner in particular needs re-doing in hi-res! :) )

 

Leigh

did you buy just the name or hosting as well?

did you buy just the name or hosting as well?

Just the name. Wanted to weigh up my options for hosting a little longer. Wasn't sure whether to grit my teeth and pay or go for one of the ad-free hosting sites. I've heard very good things about http://www.awardspace.com

Do you not have any free webspace supplied by your ISP??

 

You could point your domain name there......depends on what type of content will be required on your site mind you.

Do you not have any free webspace supplied by your ISP??

 

You could point your domain name there......depends on what type of content will be required on your site mind you.

I might be wrong but I was under the impression that if you had a web page that used your quota of free space provided your ISP you had to have a fairly convoluted address. In my case it would be http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/directoryname , which isn't very professional looking really (they offer 50Mb of free space).

I got mine through Pete. TurboZ.

I might be wrong but I was under the impression that if you had a web page that used your quota of free space provided your ISP you had to have a fairly convoluted address. In my case it would be http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/directoryname , which isn't very professional looking really (they offer 50Mb of free space).

 

 

if you buy your own domain, you should be able to point the DNSA ( address of the domain name you purchase ie:http://www.kyotounderground.com to the Tiscali site)

 

Have a look on the domain providers sites and see if it offers DNSA pointing and go for the easiest one to use, thats what i did with mine as mine was hosted by a different site than i bought the domain name off, if that makes any sense. The address provided by my hosting site was crap.

 

It might also be woth looking at Tiscali info and it will possibly tell you how to do it on there also.

Yep defo give http://www.oneandone.co.uk my vote, I have over 20 websites registered with them and an developers e-shop, never had a prob, been using them for a few years now.

Friday,

 

What you can do is have it set up as Framed web forwarding

 

You go into your control panel, then select your domain name in Manage Domains,

Then choose Web Forwarding

Then choose "Framed web forwarding"

 

This keeps your bought name in the address bar and hides your convolouted name from tiscali

 

It *might* do to start you off...............then when your site grows you can move over to paid hosting......

Cheers for the help folks. Always found this stuff a bit on the confusing side and that's cleared things up :) Will report back with my success or failure...;)

 

Leigh.