maybe, but it'll be having more than selfbuild on it - some stuff on
sea-levels & local historty, and the economy, too, plus some things
from before the day-job (that'll be picked-up again once the house is
on its way again) - the web opens so many opportunities for developing
ideas !

Chris


On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Nick Laurie<nwlaurie@...> wrote:
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>
> uk_selfbuild.whatever, perhaps?
> Nick
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> On 4 Jul 2009, at 19:08, Chris Hunter (home) wrote:
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>> 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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