domain name registration
Listed below are are prices for domain name registrations all domain names will be registered for one year unless stated. prices start from as little as £8.00 per annum for .co.uk domain names.
what is a domain name?
a domain name is the text name corresponding to the numeric ip address of a computer on the Internet. a domain name must be unique. internet users access your web site using your domain name.
a domain name must be unique and can only be under sixty-seven characters in length.
domain names have to be registered to be valid and usable on the internet.
a 'url' (uniform resource locator) provides a way of uniquely specifying the address of any web site or document on the internet. the typical url would be made up of four parts.
- protocol
- host name
- domain name
- domain suffix or tld
top level domains
they should reflect some info about the site (e.g. .edu are intended for educational institutions & .ac.uk should refer to an academic site in the united kingdom)
country code domains
there are over 240 country codes world-wide. each country in the world has its own unique country code. for example, the united states country code is .us, italy's country code is .it, france's country code is .fr,etc etc..
alternative domain names
access to these new domain names is currently available to internet users via one of several partner isps and users who have activated their browser with a simple to install plug-in software application. the number of internet users who have access to these new domains is growing rapidly. it already exceeds more than 180,710,501 users world-wide.
if you already have a domain name and want to use our hosting services you have several options available to you.
