What is a hosting account?

A hosting account is your site's online server.
Once you have an account established, you can upload your directories, pages and images, ready to be viewed on the web.

All of our hosting accounts come with a feature packed Control Panel, which allows you to easily manage your website 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. From your control panel you can manage your e-mail, check your stats, install CGi-Scripts or even create your own Shopping Basket*. Please see our Rates and Features table for full information of the accounts available and their included features.

*The Shopping Basket is only available on selected accounts.

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What is a domain name?

A domain name is the your unique online identity.
It is the address your customers use to find information about your products and services on the web. 

How to choose a Domain Name

Organisations will usually select a Top Level Domain (TLD) that corresponds to the country in which they operate, and some companies will also register Domain Names with several different TLDs. In brief, businesses based in or, who market themselves in the UK use a Domain Name ending .uk.

TLDs such as .com, .net and .org are not geographically specific, and are managed by a corporation in the U.S.A.

The .uk country code is separated into sub categories, called Second Level Domains (SLDs). People are encouraged to register a Domain Name within the SLD that corresponds to their type of activity: -

.co.uk for commercial enterprises (the largest SLD in the UK)
.org.uk for non-commercial organisations
.plc.uk and .ltd.uk for registered company names only**
.net.uk for Internet Service Providers
.sch.uk for schools.

**The rules for .ltd.uk and .plc.uk registrations require that the Domain Name is the same as the company name that the organisation has registered with Companies House. However, the rules for .co.uk and .org.uk registrations allow for a wide, unrestricted variety of names, abbreviations and acronyms to be used.

Please check the availability of your domain name here >

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(Domain names are registered for 2 years)

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