Domain Deals & Offers

Email from LCN: As you may have seen, yesterday we launched a 48-hour 1p UK domain promotion. This was due to end at 23:59 today (26th July), but as mentioned within the offer terms and conditions on the LCN website, there was a maximum of 10,000 UK domain registrations available at the discounted price. We ran this campaign with the intention of giving as many customers as possible an opportunity to register a domain for just 1p. Despite there being a reasonable usage clause within the terms on the LCN website, a handful of customers registered huge volumes of domains in a very short period and we were forced to end the promotion prematurely. This was frustrating for the rest of our customers and we’re sorry for any disappointment this may have caused We would also like to apologise for not being explicit enough around the offer terms. Whilst our website did display the full terms and conditions, the original email we sent you yesterday did not clearly reference the 10,000 domain limit. As way of apology, and to ensure as many of our customers can get a domain at the offer price, we are providing you with a promo code you can use to register up to three new UK domain names for a penny each before the end of the day. Just search for your domain and add the promo code 1PUK at the checkout for the discount to be applied. The code expires at midnight and we have a total of 4,000 additional domains which we can offer at this discounted price today.

Your should never pay for privacy on UK domains anyway. Since GDPR came in Nominet only publish your details if you ask them to.

I got an email about this on Wednesday morning, and when I looked at the terms there was nothing about a10,000 domain limit. So I decided to wait until later before ordering. By the time I went back to the site it was too late. I'll know for next time...

Way to late on this one it started this morning and 10k went quick at 1p

Domain privacy costs £4.95 a year to renew. Stealth charges. .co.uk £8.95 afterwards.... expensive. Order and transfer out.

OVH released 50% off on dedicated servers, vps, web hosting and domains till 26th of April! Check out: https://www.ovh.co.uk/ovh-deals

You can get 2GB ram, 1vcore, 20GB NVMe SSD (Or Ceph if you prefer) for 3 euro on hetzner. 20TB traffic although I think that's per account not per VM.

If you want to go for cheap and nasty, you can find servers for maybe $9 annually on lowendbox, but expect openvz hosting which means kernel 2.6 and probable overselling

Only for the APAC region.

Worked for me... £15.50 for a year :) hopefully i can tether/hotspot more data allowance now!! (y)

If you read on PIA forum you can see they don't actually enforce connection limit because of their no logging policy. They only say they have this limit but in fact they do not.

Oops, accidentally hit 'Report as Expired' ffs

It's so refreshing to see all the useful comments here. This thread is what HUKD should be about, not the usual 'no it's not real 4K' threads where people tear chunks out of each other :')

What you could do is put open VPN on a raspberry pi, use that as your DNS server and route all your home wifi network stuff through that. Only takes up one VPN account that way too.

Fair enough - guess it pays to shop around. I don’t suppose the standard web hosting market is as thriving as it used to be. Loads of businesses migrated email to the likes of Office365 or Google Apps, and there are more scalable players out there utilising virtualised infrastructure to reduce costs and provide better service. So, I guess if you can boost profits by adding a few quid to domain names, you’re going to do it. That’s my perspective anyway.

2 1/2 hours left!

Nominet increased their prices from £2.50 to £3.75 a year. Some registrars used this increase as an excuse to more than treble their prices from £3 a year to £10 a year.

Never used them myself, but I used to work for Namesco about a decade ago. It’s a very customer focused company and fully based in the UK (Worcester). Their prices were never market leading, but were very popular with small-med businesses due to great customer support and account management team. Of course all this could have changed in a decade!

That’s because Nominet (the registry for all .uk domains) increased their fees a few years back, so every single provider pays more to register domains... some will of course be willing to take the hit short term if they’re selling hosting packages (etc).

Not quite right... In 2013/14 Nominet checked details for existing domains. They then reserved (until June 2019) the .uk version so it would be possible to register only for existing registrant. However, if a .uk domain is registered but then renewal is not done, anyone can register the .uk Also, if the .co.uk expires, a new registrant of that domain no longer has the .uk domain reserved for them. In 2016, 123-reg offered free registration of the .uk version for existing customers, so I bet thousands were registered. Then they hiked up prices (on top of Nominet hiking its prices), so there could be a load of .uk domains available. I'm off to register one which had been reserved (but the firm that had the .co.uk went bust and their domain has finally expired!)

Deal is over

you can ask for the details to be changed, but it may be too late. It should just be an initial rush then slowly die down

Anything I can do about it now? Thanks for the reply

This is why some hosting companies offer WHOIS privacy, as it's now quite common for spammers to contact the registrant of new domains and offer their services. This isn't something unique to this company

VPS -> VPN guys, do it! only £25.13 per year with ur own privacy (ninja) edit: choose SSD VPS 1, if you're techie enough, you could host a light web + openvpn at the same time!

Was waiting for an OVH offer, Thanks for posting :)

the 1and1 is terrible as company!

No I'm not logged in, still showing as £0

Still showing as available here.

Same thing happened here except after no contact or bill they set debt collectors on me. In the end managed to get the debt collectors fees waived and just paid the £14 or whatever it was... AVOID 1&1

APologies then if that's true. When I last did it a couple of years ago it was 2 years. Will check this out then.

Thought I should probably follow this up after some recent changes at Innohosting - they have just been bought out by a private equity firm. They may stay a great host, but whilst I had a great relationship with their previous team I have zero experience with the new management, so couldn't comment either way on their quality any more. Personally, I have shifted some sites to Jolt.co.uk, but HostWithLove is also getting a lot of support at the moment. I hope Innohosting keeps up its long record of quality, but buyouts don't tend to be a good sign with hosting companies.

Thanks mate

Namecheap are great for domains - good prices, decent live chat support, and they don;t try to upsell. I've used them for a decade and have been very happy. Hosting is a different issue as it depends on your needs. What sort of site are you looking to host and what level of traffic do you want to plan for? For general (shared) hosting I use Innohosting and have been very happy with their service for many years - it's rock solid, well priced, UK or US servers, and their techs really know what they're doing. I host all kinds of sites there, from smallish Wordpress sites to forums to static sites. If you just want to host a Wordpress site, then Siteground are probably the budget option as they have built some infrastructure dedicated to Wordpress, which speeds up page delivery. If you are hosting a big Wordpress site then take a look at Pagely - they're fantastic.

Hello, Can anyone recommend a reputable provider please for domain and hosting. thank you

Although I've heard of this technique I wouldn't at all say its solely related to Namecheap. I've actually been pondering buying a domain recently, through Namecheap, typed it in and exited out - in fact a few times. The domain is still available to buy.

Lots of wine was half price in my local coop, but wasn't marked down. They must have thought I was mad returning to the self checkout with arm fulls to investigate

I may have just visited a second store...both are in student areas and neither had been emptied - it seems the students these days just don't care about bargains on booze!

Cheers OP. No Prosecco and thanks to me, there's now no Cava :D

They've been having a clear out at my local one too - including this wine so probably national

Thank you for the info. I'll be moving all our domains away from Heart Internet immediately.

Thanks for the info. I'll stay well clear off those companies.

not only .co.uk, I picked up a .uk address for 99p for future use using the code. Also applies to .org.uk if you prefer that. personally, used Heart internet for my domains for many years and can't say a bad word about them. they don't pressure you into getting anything else from them, I bought the .uk domain and within an hour I chucked a quick website onto some free hosting and had the name servers updated and some email forwarding setup without a hitch.

Many thanks!

I use similar services elsewhere but intend to move some services to InfinityFree on expiry. "Free" hosting typically has no or forum-only support, limited server resources and limited email services. Some providers insist that you login every xx days to show the account is still active. Most of these requirements are reasonable considering the cost being charged. Some free hosting providers place ads on your site; Infinity states it does not.

Seen them advertised a lot recently and I just wouldn't trust them, even more so going by some of your reviews. 123Reg - Never once had an issue, and been with them for over 10 years.

Since my experience with them was probably 10 years ago, I doubt they give a stuff. Anyone who doesn't Google them first probably deserves what they get

A company to be avoided at all costs. Yes, you get a cheap domain for a year but then they chase you with debt collectors for renewal fees.

I'll be kicking off migration to another provider 6 months prior to the renewal date.

I do hope 1and1 they read this. They have an absolutely shocking reputation across the industry.

not worth the hassle. i had web hosting with this company and it seems everything you buy is on a contract and renewed automatically.

They could be free from 1&1 and I'd still vote cold.

They chased me for 4 years for money owed on an account that i cancelled well within the time they asked for. Ironic thing was that i could still log in to the account in all that time. Eventually i logged in, changed the address on the account and other details and never heard from them again.

Awful company, automatically renew domain and chase fees for almost a year.

Free whois privacy with thrm now, pretty cool. I just transfer a few .com domains to them, 20yrs frre privacy now :)