Register a .uk domain name and win an iPad

Registering a domain name these days is one of the easiest task when it comes to creating a new website, but what if you could also win a wonderful prize by only buying a co.uk domain name from VelnetWeb, a UK based web hosting company ?

Velnet is one of the fast growing web hosting company in UK, with a wide range of products from web hosting and domain name registration to web design and ecommerce stores creation. With the latest discounts offered ( -20% for the Velnet Business Plan hosting plan ), Velnet is striving to offer its clients more options for less money, without the lacks of any initial features.

VelnetWeb is recently holding a competition in conjuction with Nominet, the .uk domain name registry in the United Kingdom. The competition will run for a total of 8 weeks, starting on 2 of August and lasting until 27 September 2010. Every person that registers a .uk domain name in that period can win either a brand new Apple iPad or one of the daily give-away iTunes vouchers, each worth £25. There are 8 brand new iPads in the competition and lots of iTunes vouchers, so chances of grabbing one are quite high.

In order to take part of this competition, along with registering a .uk domain name on the .UK prize draw page, anyone that wants to participate to the draw should tick the “Prize Draw Signup” and will be automatically entered in the contest.

Each week, the winners will be picked automatically by Nominet and they will be contacted and announced on VelnetWeb website with details regarding how to get in possession of the prize.

Domain names for beginners – choosing a web address

A good domain name plays a major role for a website’s usability and search engines results. Therefore, choosing an appropriate domain name is equal to promoting and branding a website even before it is launched online. Though almost all best domains already belong to someone else, if combined some good tactics with creativity and good linguistic knowledge fellows out there might discover that possibilities for choosing a high-quality domain are endless.

Either thinking about growing a blog and add some popularity to it, or build an identity for a company, choosing a domain name is essential for what future users are up to in the online environment. The World Wide Web is crawling with advice and tips on picking a domain name, they worth a mention though they require more essential details to be added.

If possible, these are five golden rules when choosing a domain name:

1.      A domain name should be short – a longer domain name equals with higher possibilities for a potential visitor to misspell the address.

2.      A domain name should be unforgettable and impressive

3.      Must be easy to spell

4.      Must be easy to pronounce – again, a name that shivers people when they pronounce it will definitely become a bad choose for website’s name

5.      Always verify so that domain name is not getting into trouble with someone else’s trademark.

There are many possibilities to choose from, when thinking about a domain name. If a cash reserve is prepared for buying one, people could get a single-word domain, though finding a good one will cost a load of money; or they could try applying some other tactics that would allow finding out other domain name that suits their needs.

So, what are those other strategies? There are two types of domain names available out there: intuitive names and brandable names.

We should disseminate first the “intuitive”, rich with keywords domain names. An intuitive name might be found by an individual who doesn’t have a clue regarding a specific website but he’s doing a search on phrases/keywords linked to a particular subject and finds out that information he searched for is located on a website with a name related to those keywords typed. The best strategy for a discoverable domain name is to mix, tweak or create a phrase from 2, 3, maybe 4 keywords. The possibilities are infinite.

Second, there are the “brandable” domain names, like Twitter. Those establish an unique identity online for a website and suggest interesting and different ideas and feelings. It is harder to come up with a brandable domain name but once it is established people who know it can use only search engines to reach it or, of course, use the intuitive search, if the website holds a wide number of visitors and good SEO’d content.

In conclusion, domain names are not to be chosen by guess. Though this strategy might succeed for some people, that’s not a real option. Choosing a domain name means a deep analysis of what niche will be related to, what keywords will promote the website in search engines and, of course, a bit of creativeness.

eUKhost.com

eUKhost.com

eUKhost.com

Brief Introduction

If you are looking for low cost but at the same time reliable service provider for web hosting at all levels, irrespective of customer size, then eUKhost is the right place to come to. An experience of over 8 years in this field has made them very confident and competent to handle any type of customer request and they are able to back it up with an efficient team of customer service personnel and technical superiority enabling them to offer a 99.95% uptime guarantee to customers. They now boast of hosting over 10,000 sites and this number is growing rapidly. They believe in meeting SLA agreements drawn with customers and are very responsive to customer needs.

Services offered

They offer a wide range of services such as Windows hosting, semi dedicated servers, offsite backup solutions to name a few.

a)Web hosting

They offer cheap hosting services including domain registrations for both individuals and other small businesses starting at £29.99 per annum and have all the necessary benefits associated with a top level hosting package. The standard plan supports unlimited domain hosting and email accounts without any restriction. Support features through drupal hosting, joomla hosting and word press blogging are also available. They offer this on both Linux and Windows platforms and customers can have the advantage of multiple domains hosting as well making use of cPanel on Linux and Dotnetpanel on Windows. The

b) Reseller hosting services

You can begin your personal web hosting business by making use of the excellent reseller hosting services offered as two plans – Linux Standard and Windows Standard with the control panels being cPanel and Plesk respectively.

c) Cheap dedicated and Virtual dedicated hosting

These services are also offered as two packages where you can go for your own customised dedicated servers with the option and liberty to choose your own requirement of control panel, RAM, firewall and so on.

Strengths

* Affordable services
* Excellent customer support
* Robust data center capabilities
* 30 day money back guarantee

Support provided

They provide both sales and service support through dedicated numbers and these are manned by knowledgeable local personnel. You can also request for a callback if you cannot get through to the person for any reason.

Support number:  0808 262 0455

Their knowledgebase repository is rich with information on various topics related to web hosting and that is a very good source for customers.

What do customers have to say?

Customers feel that they are getting value for money web hosting services backed up by strong customer services making it very easy to do business with this company.

You can discuss this post and any other web hosting related post either by commenting on this blog or at UK Webmaster Forum

Will Russia get .rf domain extension?

Different interest groups are always calling for a new domain name extension, there has bee an long campaign by pornographers to .xxx , the Welsh for a .cymru , even Cornwall wants its own domain extension. Some of them have succeed, for example .cat for Catalonia region of Spain, .la for Los Angeles in USA.
The latest call for a domain name extension for a specific people or language comes from the new Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, who called for Russia to be assigned .rf domain extension (RF stands for Russian Federation), he does not want the .rf domain extension in English, but in Cyrillic.
Mr Medvedev is promoting Russian as a global language, he argued that 300 Million people worldwide uses Russian language media, having a .rf in Cyrillic will further help in raising the profile of Russian as a language used globally.

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