Professional website hosting & domain registration

If your new website absolutely has to be a .com, then here’s a few tricks which will help you ferret out the best remaining domain name for you.

Although there are millions of .com domain names registered already, that doesn’t mean that all the best names are gone. You’re not going to be able to register a four-letter or lower combination, but good domain names are still available if you forget about it being the shortest. Try to concentrate on it being either descriptive or memorable instead.

But that’s where the problem only begins. If you’re anything like me, you’ll wrack your brains trying to think laterally, only to end up with a list of ‘possibles’ which diminish in quality and value. Even so, instead of trying out a name at a time in the domain search, use our bulk domain name search tool, to see if any are still available to be registered.

Work smarter not harder!
Those who get ahead however use all the tools available and there’s none so much fun to use as our domain name suggestion tool. This will suggest possible domain names if you input a couple of descriptive words, like ‘record shop’.

There are some great suggestions for ‘record shop’ actually, and at the time of writing these were still available to be registered (just £6.99 a year with us!):

The best domains we found, in reverse order, are:

5. CountyRecordShop.com
4. RecordShopDirect.com
3. CyberRecordStore.com
2. NewRecordShop.com

But the winner for us had to be: BestRecordShop.com

You can’t really get better than that, and with hosting from £9.99 a year, UKCZ is the best place to register and host your domain.

These domains will be quickly snapped up now, no doubt, but keep an eye on our blog for more top tips in the future.

Another unsuspecting person falls foul of 1and1 Internet’s domain name auto-renewal and transfer policy:

A few months ago I received a letter from a debt collection agency regarding the £9 I owed 1and1.co.uk for unpaid domain registrations. I wasn’t aware at the time that 1and1 automatically set domains to renew and thus I’d been billed for a number of domains that had been renewed.

…I’ve since tried to cancel the contract (after I received another email saying that I’d be charged again in 40 days for domains I haven’t used in 2 years) but I’m getting nowhere. I initated the cancellation process through the 1and1 contracts control panel and the system said that I’d receive an email with a confirmation link that would make the cancellation final. 4 days later - and I’m still waiting. I’ve since contacted the 1and1.co.uk and they’ve been largely unhelpful, recommending that I contact a different department.

It was a similar problem which lead 1and1 Internet fail to transfer all the .com domains our parent company owned, including ukcz.com. Grrrrr.

It’s just one of the many horror stories we experienced before setting up UKCZ domains and hosting.