RE: [Sheflug] Domain names

["David Bottrill" <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

My wife originally signed up for a domain with email and web forwarding with
UK2 back in January, initially we found their registration process slow.
Once up and running we found their mail servers to be a little unreliable.
However in recent months it seems to have got much better.

We found the WEB re-direct options looked rather unprofessional, namely if
you used the frames-based re-direction visitors cannot bookmark your pages
(as her site has an extensive links area this was a requirement. Without
frames-based re-direction the resulting URL shows how unprofessional web
forwarding can be particularly if you are re-directing to an ISP like
NTLWORLD where the homespage URL are not very desirable.

To get around this she has now bought web space (50 MB)from UK2, it was
available within a couple of hours after being requested and works well. The
speed of their servers is exceptional, likewise the speed of FTPing the
pages up.

Have a look for yourself at www.tehuti.co.uk

David


> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Craig Andrews
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:14 PM
> To: Sheflug
> Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Domain names
>
>
> Well, I checked out UK2.net, and they offered this...
>
> full forwarding --without-- their headers etc.
> for a .org with mail fowarding and everything
>
> 58 quid one off payment, for 2 years
>
> Is this good? If so, I may go for it. I thought I might pay for it in bits
> (2.50 a month) but to no avail.
>
> Still, might try gradwell, too.
>
> Craig Andrews
> craig [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Life would be so much easier if we
> could just look at the source code.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Martin P Holland wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Craig Andrews wrote:
> > >I have heard rumour that it is possible to get free or very
> cheap domain
> > >names. is this so, and if so, does anyone know WHERE!?!
> >
> > Haven't tried this myself but I've heard good reports about
> Peter Gradwell
> > (www.gradwell.com). Have a look his site for the details.
> >
> > IIRC it's something like a tenner for .org.uk domain (one off
> plus a renewable
> > fee of another 10 each year). He does frames-based-forwarding
> so that means that
> > if people type in www.yourdomain to their browser it will
> redirect to wherever
> > your web pages are, say at freeserve or wherever. This means
> that you are not
> > tied to a specific ISP.
> >
> > Caveat: I'm not sure how well search engines cope with frames
> based forwarding.
> >
> > If you are after an ultra cheapo solution, this is it.
> >
> > atb
> >
> > Martin
> > --
> > http://www.shef.ac.uk/~pm1mph
> >
> >
> >
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