It's essential for every serious business and organisation to establish its prescence on the internet. Compared to conventional forms of advertising and the cost of printing brochures and flyers etc. this is very cheap. The first stage is to choose a domain name.

A domain is a unique Internet name which you register and 'own' for a set length of time. The ideal domain name has an obvious connection to the name or nature of your business or organisation. Keep it as short as possible. Longer names are more difficult to remember and more susceptible to typing errors when you key them in.

Undoubtedly the best domains for use mainly within the UK are .co.uk domains, and for further afield .com can't be beaten. To someone trying to work out or remember your domain name these are the most obvious. However, these have been around for quite a few years and many of the best ones have been taken already. There are plenty of others such as .org, .info and .net and new ones more recently introduced such as .me.uk, .uk.net, .biz etc. There are also many worldwide domains, some of which you can register. If you are really stuck it may be worth considering one of these such as .fm .tv .tc .cx.

If you are starting a new business or organisation you may want to go back a stage and think about it's name in relation to what domains are available to register. We can help you with this.

It may be worth buying more than one domain name - the .co.uk and .com versions for instance. The main advantage of this is it prevents someone else using a similar name to yours.

Domains are fairly cheap, costing around £11 for .co.uk or £36 for .com per 2 years. (excluding VAT).

The actual registration period can be anything from a year upwards and towards the end of this period you have the option of renewing for a further period at a similar cost to the initial registration.

We undertake to keep your registration current until such time as you tell us you no longer need it.