Hi,

We are building an overseas property website and wondered what the main services of a good domain registry company are, are they mostly the same? Can someone recommend any names? I've heard that the quality of re-direction and SEO can be affected by which domain company you go with?

Regards

Patrick

Thanks, I'll give them a ring.

On 10:59:25 13 April 2007 BertieB wrote:

Hi,

I use 123-reg.co.uk for all my domain names (personal and work). They are cheap (£3 per year for a .uk). You can control the DNS so you can create sub-domains (e.g. you can direct yourdomain.com to a live site and test.yourdomain.com to a test site).
I haven't heard that the company you use affects the redirection.

Hope this helps,

Bertie

On 13:25:55 14 April 2007 StevePratley wrote:

The company you use to register your domains makes no difference, it is where the site is seen to be hosted that makes the difference.

123-reg.co.uk are a good registrar, and cheap. I have a few dozen domain names with them and no problems to date. I've heard less enthusiastic comments about their  hosting services though.

Godaddy do very cheap .com domains also.

Depends on size of site and expected traffic and whetehr you need a database or specific coding (e.g. ASP, PHP, JSP etc)

I definitely do not recommend 1&1 or 123reg/webfusion/pipex for hosting. (altho agree 123reg are ok for domain reg)

Have a look round Webhostdir and webhostingtalk for recommendations

On 19:42:30 14 April 2007 phg42 wrote:

Thanks for that. So which hosting companies would you recommend? We need a company to host an initial holding page and then the site proper.

Regards

Patrick

Hi Patrick

Take look around locally.  One of the biggest complaints about registration and hosting companies is that you often cannot contact them directly. You will find there will be a smaller local organisation close to you where you can develop a direct contact for hosting and they will no doubt handle any registration for you as well. You can't beat personal contact for service.

Where are you based?

Tony