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Domain Names - Is Your Name Available?

1. What Is A Domain Name?
Your domain name is your company's web site address on the Internet. It is used for various aspects of Internet addressing, most notably your email address and web site address, eg.

sales@thephonenumbershop.co.uk and
www.thephonenumbershop.co.uk.

There is only one unique domain name provided to each registrant - No one else will share your domain name.

For instance our domain names are:

www.uksecureweb.co.uk
www.uksecureweb.com
www.uksecureweb.net

2. Who Needs a Domain Name?
Unless you are using email and putting up a web site for personal
or leisure reasons, a domain name should be considered a must for
all companies. This will become a way for people to locate you on
the Internet.

The sooner you register a domain name suitable for your company, the more likely your first choice name will be available.

If your company name is Sandelwood Furniture and next week the company Sandelwood Shoes registers the domain names of:

sandelwood.com and sandelwood.co.uk

- For themselves, those names will likely be unavailable to you forever.

3. What Are The Benefits Of A Domain Name?
An appropriate company domain name presents a more professional image to online users and provides you with better name recognition - If you are using the name of your Internet Service Provider to comprise your web site and email address, you run the risk of having to involuntarily change names due to the sale of your ISP's company to a larger provider. This is not an uncommon occurrence. Consider the inconvenience, expense and lost customer traffic if you changed your company's physical address.

Having your own domain name allows you more flexibility to change service providers or to setup your own in-house server if it becomes desirable.

4. What Are Your Charges For Domain Names?

We charge:
£9.99 for 2 years registration for .co.uk name and
£24.99 for 2 years registration for .com name
+ vat
- After 2 years, you will be reminded that your renewal for you domain name is due, you can then decide if you still want your domain name or not.

5. How Do I Choose A Domain Name?
General tips for selecting a domain name are: keep it simple and short, represent at least of portion of your company name in the domain name, make it memorable, and make it easy to spell and pronounceable if possible.

6. Can I Find Out If My Name Is Already Taken?
To find out if your desired domain name is already taken, just type in a name in the form at the top of this page.

7. How Do I Apply For A Domain Name?
First check that the name is available, by clicking on the 'search' link found at the top of this page. If it is available, then simply fill out our order form and we will register the domain name for you.