Chris

If I'm "guessing" website names I tend to try .com and .co.uk. If it
doesn't come up with that I might then google for it. Personally, I think
individuals tend to use .co.uk, companies use .com and organisations use
.org but I don't think there's a hard and fast rule.

The .co.uk names are normally much cheaper than .com (you can see prices
for each combination at www.cheapdomainnames.uk.com). You can, of course,
buy 2 or more names if you want to make sure you mop up everyone like me who
"guesses". All names can then point to the one site. Depends really on what
you want to use it for. I have a .co .uk address (www.bolhaminfo.co.uk)
which suits my purposes very well.

One thing I should mention is that Google doesn't seem to like Frontpage
programs although Yahoo doesn't seem to have a problem.

Rona


-----Original Message-----
From: UK_Selfbuild@... [mailto:UK_Selfbuild@...]
On Behalf Of chris_j_hunter
Sent: 04 July 2009 12:27
To: UK_Selfbuild@...
Subject: UK_Selfbuild Re: web-site ...

thanks to all on this - have contacted Alex ... need to sort a few
questions, one of which is one domain names ...

seems can can register .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk and .com, .org & .net
domains, and maybe others ...

so, wondered if people prefer one to another - are there pros & cons !?

also seems servers can be Linux or Windows (we use Mac) - presumably either
would do (well, Linux might be better for reliability) - ie: the server OS
ought to be transparent to our end ... or ?

Chris



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