A domain name is essential, rather than using your Internet
Service Provider's (ISP) web space nomenclature,as it signifies
a prestigious web presence for your business, organisation,
club, society or band. Names are going very quickly and you
really need to register as soon as possible to ensure the availability
of your preferred choice. Registration of UK domains is for
two years initially and the cost is fairly minimal. This will
give you a wide selection of suffixes, eg. co.uk, org, org uk,
bis, net, info, etc. However, if you are intending to attract
an international clientele, it may be wiser to get the "com"
suffix, although this is slightly more costly. You could register
directly with the main registration bodies, but many ISPs are
offering promotional packages for domain registration and hosting,
so it would be worthwhile letting us handle this aspect as we
will endeavour to get you the best marketing deal, consistent
with the quality of the hosting company's infrastructure, dedicated
servers and comprehensive packages offered.
You may already have a domain name, in which case we can
arrange for your site to be hosted by your existing ISP. We
will ascertain the initial and annual cost for you and, if it
appears unreasonable for your budget, we can find equally good
hosting companies in the UK at a more modest cost. In this case,
we will arrange for your domain name to be transferred to the
new host. Should you not yet have a suitable domain name, we
will suggest available names for your consideration.
The site hosting facility will also give you a number of
email addresses, for example:
info@yoursite.co.uk;
or
sales@yoursite.co.uk;
or
james@yoursite.co.uk.
Emails to these distinctive addresses can be routed to whichever
existing email addresses you wish.
Should you have web space available from your existing ISP,
we can load your web pages to that area and, if you acquire
a unique domain name, we can arrange a diversion so your web
space becomes utilised for your domain name. This is the case
with Unit Five, mentioned in our introduction, which is sited
on one of our own web spaces but, by diversion, appears under
the band's own name. You will then only need to pay for the
domain name and web diversion cost.
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