Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Reseller Hosting : Should I go with .Com or .Co.Uk

[Michael96]

Hi

I live in England and plan to set up as a reseller.

Which do you think is best having and why?

ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com

or

ns1.mydomain.co.uk
ns2.mydomain.co.uk

Does it make a diference, I will register both .com and .co.uk but I can only go with one for the name servers. BTW the site will be hosted in USA, as prices are way lower than UK reseller plans.

Looking at 100Mb web space and 1Gb bandwidth per month with
FrontPage for $10/$15 month! Support will be live during UK office hours and via e-mail at other times.

Regards
Michael

[Alan - Vox]

it can be more difficult to register name servers for .co.uk domains so i would recommend you buy a .com

[Cheappy]

why would it be more difficult SplashHost? It's same thing. I've used it before, well I used uk.org but it should be similar to .com/net/org!

[Alan - Vox]

well a lot of people buy their .co.uk's from ukreg.com and you cant do it there but you can do .coms

[Dedicated]

I agree with splashhost it is not easy to register dns for .co.uk but you can always phone or contact http://www.nominet.org.uk/ to register your dns.

[Walter]

If you want to have customers from outside the UK use a .com nameserver, looks way better.

[xnet]

true - customers in the US might see your namesevers and .co.uk and for some reason not buy w/ you. Little things like that affect people.

[Paul-UKWSD]

Its better to buy a .com as you can setup the nameservers very easyily through ukreg.

I would buy both if I was you, .co.uk and .com. It's better you have the name rather than somebody else for the sake of few pounds.

[mdrussell]

Go for .com if they are available - although it's just as easy to register nameservers for both .com and .co.uk (as long as Verisign isn't your registrar!).

[Incognito]

Yes, you should...go with both.

.com is by far the more acceptable in the U. S. if you intend to do business here.

But, I would also take the uk to appeal to my fellow countrymen if I was you.

[GordonH]

Hello

If anyone has problems registering name servers based on .uk or any other International TLD send me the hostnames and I will add them to the gTLD .info .biz and .cc name server databases.
It only takes about a minute using the OpenSRS tools.

Gordon

[-Edward-]

When Karl from KDAWebservices setup my nameservers which are .co.uk he didnt have any problems ...

[sam.moses]

Personally,
I'd go with a .biz name
Here's why:
1. It's a much newer system. Changes take effect more quickly. 15 minutes, as apposed to three days for a .com
2. Most businesses already have .com which means your customers may or may not pay attention to it. A .biz will stand out a little more because it's new, and fewer people have seen them on as regular a basis as other extensions. But that may not be what you want.

Just my two cents.
Cheers
Sam

[Incognito]

People still type.com first. The time will come when they no longer do, but .com is most accepted, followed by .net. That said, there are circumstances where .info or .biz work very well. For instance, if I was looking for a name to attract resellers, I might well like webhost.biz. But, there are still many excellent .com choices and if you look through deleted domains, you will find new attractive names every day. I looked through a list today of recently deleted and found a couple of hundred I would like to have....

[GordonH]

Hello
Just out of interest 90% of domain names we sell in the US are .com ones.

This may change when .US becomes available in April but the overhype of .info and .biz does not lead me to think that .us will be any more spectacular.


Gordon