Cheap .co.uk registrars..??

Hi,

I am looking for registrars for .co.uk domains. Godaddy charges 9.98. Any other with lower prices??

 

Namecheap, $7.99 with the coupon EVENLOWER

Minimum buy is 2 years though.

 

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/ are cheap.

 

okay.. this one comes for nearly 5$. But is there any advantage / disadvantage with godaddy?

 

MODs, please move this thread to domains category.. as I have posted into this category by mistake.

 

The problem with most UK registrars is that they make harder to manage your domain against with the facilities provided by GoDaddy.

I have not experience with 123-reg.co.uk but with other British registrars, most of them having "small print" that increase prices overtime, hidden fees to gain acces to DNS management, hosting required to get the low prices and imposibility to transfer the domain elsewhere if you are not satisfied.

Once again, don't give it fro granted with that company, but being British...

 

12-reg.co.uk is around 2.59 pounds per year, which seems a good one.. but before I go for it, I need some more info about it from the existing users..

 

I use 123-reg and find they are a good company and one I would recommend, something I don't do lightly.

 

Definitely a great price!

Just afraid because I got one at Easyspace, £4.95 by then, renewed at the same price twice plus £11 to gain DNS access, and now asking £25.00 for the next renewal

Trying to transfer it sounds like a pain, including a fee of £49.50 to Easyspace and £30 to Nominet, however a member warned me about the "small print" raising the price with another £90 of administrative costs if I wanna move

So I will have to stay at £25 against the few bucks for other UK domains registered at Godaddy :'(

 

I have 10 domains with 123-reg.co.uk and I really like them. Their control panel is straightforward and useful. I transferred domains from another company to them, because the pricing and customer service is great. I strongly recommend them as a UK domain provider.

Dan

 

I think its enough for me to decide..

Thanks to all...

 

Use "saveten" as a coupon code - that'll get you 10% off.

 

Thanks again.., my first .co.uk domain is registered with 123-re.co.uk . Went through their control panel. Seemed to be really good..

 

123-reg.

YUK! YUK! YUK!

They are cheap but not very secure.

This happened to me in august last year.

One client owed me appx €20,000 in web design and hosting fees and I refused to release his domain back to him until he settled everything.

I locked the domain and thought that was that.

I got an email a few days later from 123-Reg saying that the person had sent in documentation proving they owned the domain and they "had no choice" but to transfer it to him.

This is all despite me locking the domain and putting the domain into my name too.

They did not even ask me anything or inform me before they moved the domain.

Thats pretty bad.

I was with 123-REG since 1999 and had over 600 .co.uk domains in my 123-reg account.

I moved them out of there pretty fast I can tell you.

I now use bulkregister.com for everything now becasue when someone calls them up witha domain dispute they just say "get in touch with the person that sold you the domain" and then hang up on you.

Slightly more expensive for .co.uk domains but give you more support when there is a dispute.

In most cases you get what you pay for.

Pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

 

Have had my uk domains with 123 for about 7 years now and have never had a problem. But then I only register my own domains.

Something seems fishy about the posters story above me. If you reged the domain under your name then how could a letter convince 123 to give the domain to another person?

Either your not telling us all the details or you have a good case to sue 123.

 

Nothing fishy at all.

The domain name was registered in 1999 by the real owner and was at another registrar.

It was transferred over to me in late 2004 when I took over the web design project.

Everything fell apart around Aug 2005 and the real owner of the domain must have contacted 123-Reg and stated his case pointing out the domain was transferred over to me etc.

The thing that really shocked me was the email out of the blue from 123-REG telling me they had taken it out of my account.

I will sift through my emails and see if I can find it.

For personal domain they are okay, but B2B they really suck.

They seem to fall apart when the going gets tough.

Here is the email from 123-REG from 15/7/2005

(note they dont even have the courtesy to call me Mr Edmonds or Hi Craig, simply "hi")

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Hi,

We are writing to inform you that the legal Registrant of the above domain has requested us to move the domain out of your account and into another. As they have provided proof of company ownership/identity for this domain, we have been legally obliged to do so.

Any dispute regarding this domain should be directed towards the registrar, as we have fulfilled our obligations as the Registration Service Provider.

The Registrars for domains are as follows:

.uk - Nominet (nic.uk)
.com/net/org/biz/info/name/tv/cc - Tucows (opensrs.net) .uk.com/net, .gb.com/net, .eu.com - CentralNic (centralnic.com)

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Please check our Support site : 123-reg.co.uk/support/

Andrew McHardy
123-reg Support
PIPEX

Telephone: 0900 22 11 123 (50p per min)
Fax: 0115 877 0213
Website: 123-reg.co.uk

Part of the Pipex Group
pipex.net

This e-mail is subject to: pipex.net/disclaimer.html
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Now, if they can do that to me, a client for over 5 years with hundreds of domains, then they can do it to anyone.

There are too many thing they have screwed up including charging VAT to eu member states, something they are not or were not supposed to do.

The list is long.

 

If your client had documentation to prove he owned the domain then there is not much 123reg can do other than release the domain to him.

If he did not own the domain then you can approach nominet and ask for the domain back.

 

Clearly, you did not own the domain and were only given access to it for the purposes of the web design; i.e. it was not legally transferred to you using the Nominet system. If the legal registrant of the .co.uk domain wants his domain released from your account then 123-Reg have little option! You can hardly hold them responsible for a financial dispute arising from your business.

Don't get me wrong, I sympathise with the situation you found yourself in but relying on holding a domain as guarantee you will get paid is a risky strategy.

 

Dont get me wrong, I am not questioning the legalities, I am simply stating that the minimum that 123-Reg should have done, was to ask me first.

And actually, I am not sure of the law but it

What would have happened if...?

1) I have documents proving I was actually the legal owner
2) He had forged the documents he presented to 123-Reg

For them to send an email to me saying that they have transfered it to another registrar, thats pretty bad.

Especially without any warning whatsoever.

My current registrar would not do that.

 

You people are confusing me a lot