http://www.easily.co.uk
Used them for a couple years so far.
You can set up for as little at £10GBP,, have them ‘look after’ your domain name, but point it at another providers DNS, was rec’d to me from a newsgroup I follow, and I’ve never had a complaint.
They also do a £10GBP hosting package too.
It’s basic to start with, but they’ll upgrade you whenever, you get proper POP3 email accounts.
I have 3 domains with them right now, and all 3 are hosted elsewhere.
for registering, I think the best, from what I’ve heard is godaddy.com
they’re cheap, and reliable (from what i’ve heard).
for hosting siteflip (what I’m hosted on) is really cheap, and I haven’t had any problems yet. They’ve always responded to help desk tickets very quickly.
also lunarpages is pretty good too, as is netrillium.
places to avoid:
spyderhosts
cyberpixels
burlee
I’ve heard nothing but bad things about them. Of course, I could be wrong.
Anonymous
I agree with the http://godaddy.com recommendation. Unlike some cheap registrars, you clearly own your name and they are easy to manage.
Hosting is all over the place. Obviously you want php and mysql if you are wordpress.
Thanks for the responses.
I don’t need suggestions for hosts because my inclination is to start paying the guys who currently give me free space. 🙂
What I meant by ‘hosting’ is: okay, I’ve registered a domain. Then what? Do I need to know anything about DNS? Or do I just say, hey, I’ve got this domain and I want space for it? I guess I’m asking about how to go about getting that domain up and running (technically speaking). Make sense? I think I lack the right vocabulary to adequately express these questions. 🙂
Anonymous
Well there are several ways to do it.
First, if you have web space up already and want to go the route of least resistance, you simply alias that new domain to the existing address. That will work, but later may get messy for links and so forth. In this case you go to the dns of the registrar who simply forwards you to the alias address. Typically this has no cost beyond the domain registration fee ($9.00 U.S.).
Second, and better, is that you find out the dns addresses/names for the server you are on. The host then sets its server to recognize that the request is for your page and they deliver visitors to you. You just need to ask them to do so and get the proper dns info. It typically will look something like ns1.hostdomain.com Until they configure the server, that will then usually default to their main page. After they configure it … you are in business.
Both of these can be done from the administrative panel at http://godaddy.com from my experience and probably from most any other decent registrar as well.
Thanks bestfoot, that’s very helpful. 🙂
Anonymous
Take a look at http://www.mydomain.com . You will find answers to almost your questions. If not, post again 🙂
Dener
Anonymous
i recommend 1and1.com (or in europe 1und1.de, 1and1.co.uk). cheap, reliable, fast. and the biggest provider worldwide!
Anonymous
About GoDaddy, they’re fraudulently suggesting you own your own name. ICANN rules do not permit this. GoDaddy is violating their contract by misleading people in this way. (with luck, ICANN will crack down on them for this)
I’ve been using them for some time. They’re TERRIBLE. I mean, REALLY, REALLY bad. Someone duped them into transferring a domain out of my account last week. They’re trying to wash their hands of their responsibilities.
REPEAT: DO NOT USE GODADDY.
Shifted my domain to: http://www.aksinfo.com/ pretty reasonable packages…
Cena – I’ve used the following hosts/registrars:
http://www.1and.com (this is where my personal site is hosted)
http://www.jodohost.com (I have a “professional” based site with this host.)
I have been happy with with both, and it was easy to register domains through both of them. For the most part, if you register your domain through your host you don’t need to know anythign about DNS, they take care of that for you. But, any respectable host will allow you to register through an outside registrar and have it point to them (check their FAQ for the proper DNS addresses). If they don’t display their DNS addresses somewhere, then I wouldn’t go with them.
TG
Anonymous
I’ll second http://www.000domains.com
Not the cheapest at $13.50 but great & fast customer service (email responses within 1/2 hour) unlike cheaper (but still good – my 2nd choice) GoDaddy with slower response times.
000domains also allows payments by cheque, money order or international postal money order.
I transfered from NetSol to dotster.com, and have been reasonably happy with their service.
GANDI is the registrar a friend uses and recommends: http://www.gandi.net/
Thanks for all the input, guys. 🙂
For cheap alternatives, in my opinion, the cheapest with no restrictions, or problems that are evident, I use
Cleverdot and Rackshack. They never gave me a problem.
The problem with 1and1.com , as I have gleaned from forums is that they are very, very reluctant to let go of a domain name they register for you, so I you want to change your nameserver, like say make cleverdot.com the manager of your domain name, 1and1.com wont allow you to.
Good luck, Cena.
