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F5 Webdesign

12th January 2006, 17:08

I was just wondering, what would people recommend as the best option for the following. I need to register quite a few (5+) domains, (all the extensions, .com, .net, .biz, etc) and have them pointing all to the one domain. Basically, what is the best and cheapest option for this, that would be advert free?

Any advice/offers would be appreciated.

Thanks

jmds

12th January 2006, 17:23

I use http://www.easily.co.uk and http://www.1and1.co.uk for most of my domain names.

ebonybailey

12th January 2006, 17:50

www.datanet.co.uk

the can purchase the domain names for you and host them and give you domain forwarding.

Michael

DavidHorn

12th January 2006, 18:12

I tend to use www.34sp.com for this sort of thing. They're not the cheapest by any means (probably, godaddy.com would be a good bit cheaper), but if you're then going to need hosting, 34sp have some really good and cheap hosting packages.

creospace

12th January 2006, 18:13

As a professional web design company I would of thought you would have a reseller hosting package with great deals on domains?

There are people on this list who I’m sure can help you out try Tony at vs hosting.

If you don't want to go down that route then I understand that 1nad1 as recommended by John are very reasonable.

Gary

www.t6c.co.uk

12th January 2006, 18:26

www.ukreg.com is dirt cheap...

F5 Webdesign

12th January 2006, 18:43

Thanks for all the recommendations, I'll have a good look through them all.

I tend to use www.34sp.com for this sort of thing. They're not the cheapest by any means (probably, godaddy.com would be a good bit cheaper), but if you're then going to need hosting, 34sp have some really good and cheap hosting packages.

I'm ok for hosting as far as webspace is concerned, it's just my current host won't let me host all the domains I'm looking at under the one account without a significant price increase. But I'll have a look at 34sp, thanks.

As a professional web design company I would of thought you would have a reseller hosting package with great deals on domains?

As a relatively new company, I don't want to be paying out for a reseller hosting package if I don't have the clients to back up the cost. But it is something that I will get as soon as things take off.
I am just looking for a short term solution because I need to register a lot of domains soon for the one site, and have them all pointing at the same place. It's to stop similar domain names being snapped up.

Cheers again for the help, if anyone else has any more recommendations, please let me know

Thanks!

Rob Holmes

12th January 2006, 19:00

Cheers again for the help, if anyone else has any more recommendations, please let me know

Thanks!

We'd be happy to help if you're still looking.

We allow multiple domains in a single account.

Domains are £5.99 all in

Hosting from £3.50 a month!

Reseller accounts and dedicated servers available

Feel free to call me anytime (Direct line) 01892 824019 - if I'm not in the office (I sleep occasionally) it will sms me if you leave a message.

Rob

crus

12th January 2006, 21:01

PM me, I will look after you, I currently manage over 10,000 domain names on behalf of clients.

D

autolycus

13th January 2006, 09:35

I need to register quite a few (5+) domains, (all the extensions, .com, .net, .biz, etc) and have them pointing all to the one domain.

There is a school of thought which says you need to be a bit careful how you do this "pointing", otherwise Google may think you are running multiple sites with the same content.

See:
http://advice4businesses.co.uk/blog/index.php/2005/11/09/one_website_with_multiple_domain_names

Dave.

bwglaw

13th January 2006, 09:46

We use UKReg - used to use 34sp.com but there are hidden charges when coming away because you actually register with Easyspace, whom I loathe so much!

We have our own dedicated server located in Bedford and set up several domains to one account. Much cheaper for us compared with hosting with Fasthosts.

We don't host too many sites so if you want performance, we can do a deal with you.

mattk

13th January 2006, 10:46

You really should get yourself, at very minimum, a reseller account. It should only cost about £30 a month, so once you've got 4 or 5 client sites running on your account it effectively pays for itself.

I use Heart Internet (http://www.heartinternet.co.uk/) who do an excellent reseller package offering hosting of unlimited* domains, all under one account.

*Before someone starts flaming about there's no such things as unlimited, I'd just like to say I've never found any limitations with any of the claims made by Heart Internet.

kroggy

17th January 2006, 18:39

We use UKReg - used to use 34sp.com but there are hidden charges when coming away because you actually register with Easyspace, whom I loathe so much!.

Easyspace...
I agree with you on that one, but sadly I am stuck with them for quite a while due to a few domain names that I still have registered with them.
However, I set up my own wholesale domain account with http://www.irrp.net/ Okay I had to forward $150 to front the account but the .com and .net etc are very cheap...however I buy .co.uk etc from UKREG - can't be beaten on price for UK names.
As for hosting I use a reseller account from http://www.e3servers.com
My clients get the benefits alround and I'm happy to provide a service with a very good customer care...unlike some who we may loathe?!!

webit

17th January 2006, 19:48

We have a number of domains pointing to www.theshoppersbible.com with 301 redirects. Even so, I'm going to assign them to a virtual host and again force a 301 to ensure we are free for the Google trap of duplicate content!!!

BTW I mange our own domains along with the DNS and Nameservers though dotRegister.com (.co.uk through Easyspace)

mattk

18th January 2006, 12:53

Easyspace...
God, don't talk to me about Easyspace.
UKREG - can't be beaten on price for UK names.
Actually for .uk domains (2 years) Heart charge £5.18 compared to £5.90 at UKReg and for .com domains (1 Year) Heart charge £7.99 compared to UKReg £8.89 ;)

crus

18th January 2006, 13:01

Last time I cheked the exchange rates, we were about a fiver for a .com!

http://reg.urlportfolio.com

Rob Holmes

18th January 2006, 14:37

seabro

18th January 2006, 18:34

I use 123-reg.co.uk

I have no complaints but I dont do alot of comparing so dont know how their prices compare.