Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Domain Names : Namecheap selling UK domains?

[Bannaz]

I've been away for a short while, and suddenly noticed that Namecheap are selling UK domains!

How long has this been going on? Why havn't they sold them up until now?

Basically, I use Namecheap for ALL my domains apart from UK ones, which I use UKreg for (little on the expensive side), but now I see Namecheap are offering them too, I may start transfering them all over to Namecheap...although "shouldn't keep all your eggs in one basket"...hmm!

[philm]

Hmm, quite a while I think.

I do seem to get quite a few timeout errors when trying to manage .co.uk domains throught the CP though....

[dmaven]

enom's CCTLD platform is pretty bad. Go with one of the known co.uk providers

[Gerrit]

UKreg expensive?? Less than 3 GBP per year for a .co.uk = expensive ??

That's less than what I pay when visiting the local curry house I would not call that expensive

[ukbill69]

They would only be making 50p per reg if that was the price. There's got to be a catch somewhere.

[Lubeca]

Originally posted by ukbill69
They would only be making 50p per reg if that was the price. There's got to be a catch somewhere.

As mentioned in another thread, it's called a "loss leader". Sell your basics cheap in the hope that people will buy the extras that bring in the money. Hosting in the case of UKreg/Fasthosts.