uk_selfbuild.whatever, perhaps?
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On 4 Jul 2009, at 19:08, Chris Hunter (home) wrote:

> Rona, Nick -
>
> thanks ...
>
> looks like .co.uk / .org.uk / .me.uk cost £15 per two years, and .com
> / .org / .net cost £15 per year ... not sure why, but can't see a
> problem with going with org.uk, so maybe that'll be the one ...
>
> now we need to find a name that's won't cause problems in one part of
> the world or another & is reasonably memorable !
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Rona<rona@...> wrote:
>> 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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