If you dont like someone, then recommend uk2.net to them!

These guys should be shut down – their business practices are appalling.

Their support both the free and fully managed are staffed by people with no knowledge of servers.

They will lose you customers, and possibly your online business.

do yourself a favour and pay a bit more for a quality provider.

uk2.net lure you in with cheap prices and then you are well and truly buggered.

They have cost me over 2k in lost business in the last month and wiped bespoke web applications/systems worth over 4k – we paid for backups but it transpires these were never carried out despite us having tickets with them confirming this was done.

No offer of a refund, no apologies, they simply do not give a flying fcuk about their customers.

The attitude is f you pay me.

AVOID AVOID AVOID

FIRST THING EVER !!!

NEVER REGISTER YOUR DOMAIN OVER ANY HOSTING COMPANY EVER, THE SERVICE MIGHT BE USEFUL, BUT IT IS ABSOLUTELY NOT SAID, THAT YOU HAVE THE USERID and PASSWORD TO MANAGE YOUR DOMAIN NAME.
YOU ‘RE RESPONSIBLE OF YOUR DOMAIN NAME – EVEN BOUND BY LAW – AND MAY BE WITHOUT THE POWER TO DO WHATEVER …

Mydns.com or / and Mydomain.com

(*) They are a discount register , thus pretty cheap but somewhere limited in national Tld’s, which you can overcome by …

(**) Foreign (with them not purchasable) or not registered or not transferred Domains on MyDns.com… All you need to do is to point the Name Servers to their infrastructure, (the registrar, not the hosting company), thus manage them as unregistered external domains (** free **, but a little slow, you’ll need some patience….) but free !!! (I manage .in (india) extentions there, purchased over GoDaddy and hosted on our dedicated servers )

(***) with a 7.95 USD (one year additional domain registration included) you can transfer a domain and issue a nice automated domain transfer to their nameservers.

(****) either in (**free**,not registered with them or transferred or purchased, once a domain is transferred or bought YOU NEED TO PURCHASE FOR 0USD (ZERO = FREE) a domain transfer management, which is excellent for IP pointing , Mx Records, CNames, etc… (by the way you are able there to manage & change too the name servers if you host with some of those bad and tricky providers, trying to loyalize yourself till end of life over name servers, only they manage, as you do not have any power, better password at the registrar like 1&1 Germans dedicated servers provider (20 or more free domains in the contract, the trap, you have no userid and password, and once you cancel the server with them each domain becomes 65 Euro/Year and you are betrieved and hassled by a domain registrar (who automatically renews asking you to pay, ( if you are German in Germany better you pay ), in my case I just told them, no contrct between us , please place your issue on New York State Court, which for obvious reasons never happened.

Final considerations….

I use Mydns.com services since 10 years or more, it works fine, and the seldom times I needed an email contact, guess 2 times for 1000 domains in 10 years it worked.

I hate their user interface offering to purchase whatever ( for me useless ) service before you get purchased your domain … and I do not appreciate their user interface making you loop around for nothing, but definitively beside those things a common webdesigner would have fixed , the service they offer works finest, no complaint at all.

A tip for whoever will go there, once you purchased the domain management bundle for 0 USD , so free , (Why do I need to purchase something free ?), disable all forwarding settings , then enter DNS … identify the A Record (in the middle why ? Should be on top) … and enter the IP of the receiving machine, and you’re done.

2-8 hrs and your domain ressolves properly on your computer, obvious do not forget to setup your domain on your computer / hosting service.