Good domain registrar in the UK?

[Adz]

There is a fee of £10 for Nominet to change the IPS tag on a .uk. For GTLD, most UK providers resell an American ICANN registrar so you would have to go to the 'upstream' registrar and ask for your domain back. This can be somewhat more tricky.

Having said that, it's highly unlikely that a hosting/domain company with more than a few hundred clients would completely disappear. Normally when a company like that is failing, a competitor will swallow them up and service will continue pretty much as normal.

In terms of Vidahost, they've got thousands of domains on their nameservers and fantastic growth. You really don't have anything to worry about with them.

Web hosting is largely recession proof anyway. During a recession, more people turn to the internet to make money, not less. And when a company is failing, the website is the very last thing to go, right before they turn out the lights.

 

[Berserker]

Web hosting is largely recession proof anyway. During a recession, more people turn to the internet to make money, not less. And when a company is failing, the website is the very last thing to go, right before they turn out the lights.

I'd say they turn the lights out first. If the brand is saleable, so is the domain.

 

[Beansprout]

@Oxy, a problem with huge companies is that it can be difficult to get through to someone who can help in the event of problems. Of course domains are pretty straightforward so that rarely happens, but they're also pretty essential so just a case of finding a registrar you're happy with. Any direct Nominet member (for .uk domains), and either a reseller of a quality ICANN member (Enom, Opensrs are two I've used/use) or of course a direct ICANN member will do you well.

So long as the domain is in your name, it's rare to have any sort of problem. Opensrs are superb at reuniting domain owners with their domains when the reseller has gone AWOL. Enom too have help on their site.

But that's perhaps getting a little detailed - the key is to ensure the domain is registered in your name, which it pretty much always will be with any registrar.

One good reason is that the registrant = owner of the domain. I had a case once where a client put a domain in my name, then they got sued and the lawyers came after me due to their whois lookup showing my details. That was fun...

I'd say they turn the lights out first.

Indeed because they should by that point be working from nothing other than a macbook, which of course has a backlit keyboard!

Whether or not other laptops do is beside the point

 

[craptakular]

cool, I think I will register some domains with vidahost.