Domain name, web site address or URL information

For a nominal one off fee, we can register your domain for you for 2 years. You would receive the URL, free email for you to use straight away, webmail, so you can check your mail from anywhere in the world, email virus protection, easy to use online web site creation tool, upto 750mb of professional web space, so you can design your own site, technical support and instant set up. Contact us directly for further information.

What is a domain name or URL and how does it work?

A domain name is the address of a web site and will be shown in your address bar of the web site you are looking at on your computers monitor or screen. You should see 'http://www.admain.co.uk' in your browser at the moment. The proper name for this, 'URL', is an acronym for 'uniform registry locator'. Only one web site can have that name, in essence very similar to car number plates.

When you type a domain name into your address bar, the first thing your computer has to do is convert it into the I.P. address of the host name on the server. This happens by the your browser having a quick chat, maybe a cup of tea with the name server(just kidding about the cupof tea). So the browser says to the name server "I need to convert a domain into an I.P. address." The name server tells your browser what the I.P. address is and hey presto, the web site you wanted to look at appears on your screen.

What type of domain or URL should I register?

If you are based in the U.K. ideally you should register a URL with the suffix .co.uk. So if your company name is 'Banner Advertising', you should try to get the domain www.banneradvertising.co.uk. You may find though, that there is another company in the U.K. with the same company name as yourself, who has already registered that URL - so you're stuck without a web site address. There are several options open to you at this point. You can put a hyphen in, to seperate the two words, www.banner-advertising.co.uk, or you could choose a different suffix.

The different suffixes' are usually country specific, for instance, a web site address with the ending .se, should be a Swedish web site. Like wise, a .ie should be an Irish web site, although anyone in the world can register these suffixes'. There are a couple of exceptions to this rule, namely, .com (originally set up for Americans, short for commercial, however, there is a .us for the Yanks now), .net and .org and the recently released .eu.

Generic domains or URL's

A generic URL is a web site address that is not a company name, but a description of the service of what that company offers. The benefit in this is mainly to do with search engines. The two main benefits are, if an internet user is looking at the results of a keyword search in a search engine, he can see exactly what that listing is offering just by a quick glance of the domain name. The other, more complicated reason, is to do with something called search engine spiders. The general concensous is that it makes the site easier to find by the search engines. This is explained thoroughly in the 'Search Engine' tab, on the left hand side or at the top of the page.

Checking availability of URL's or domain names

The easiest way to check availabilty is to ask ferret. This enables you to check availabilty of mutliple domains with just one search.

Registering your domain or URL

We take all the hassle out of registration for you. Depending on what type of suffix you require, we can check availability and register your domain for you. All registrations come with email facility, yourname@yourdomain.co.uk, web mail, so you can check your email from anywhere in the world, email virus protection, easy web site creation tool, 750mb of professional web space, technical support and and free instant set up.

We can also offer a 1 month first page of results keyword advertising campaign on the worlds most popular search engine, Google (Google is is no way affiliated or connected with or to us and are registered as Google Inc). Google reserve the right of withdrawing the free promotion at any time. Please contact us as to availability of domains and costs of registration under no obligation.