Anyone know a good place to register unused domains

**baldidiot** · 25 August 2011, 1:42 pm

Whenever I buy a .com I tend to also buy the .co.uk etc.. to stop someone trying to cash in. I then redirect the .co.uk to the .com and so on. But my current host now wants £10 a year to redirect each domain.

Can anyone recommend a good registrar to move them all (around 60) to that is competitively priced and also offers free redirecting/pointing?

**rak** · 25 August 2011, 2:17 pm

Originally Posted by baldidiot

Whenever I buy a .com I tend to also buy the .co.uk etc.. to stop someone trying to cash in. I then redirect the .co.uk to the .com and so on. But my current host now wants £10 a year to redirect each domain.

Can anyone recommend a good registrar to move them all (around 60) to that is competitively priced and also offers free redirecting/pointing?

Thats madness £10 a year to redirect each domain.

Why not look at this option - setup your .co.uk on the same server as your .com (if it allows unlimited domains to be sitting on that hosting account), and put a 301 redirect in the root of the .co.uk.

**baldidiot** · 25 August 2011, 3:34 pm

True, but that sounds like a lot of work for 60 domains (a lot of which have different servers & main domains) when it should be a quick setting change. Plus I kind of don't want them to have the business if they're being so greedy!

**universal4** · 25 August 2011, 5:08 pm

I agree that you could do this the way Rak said and use a 301.

You could also do it in dns and it wouldn't cost you anything additional if you use your own dns server, but honestly the most effective way to do it is as Rak suggested.

Rick
Universal4

**rak** · 25 August 2011, 9:33 pm

Originally Posted by baldidiot

True, but that sounds like a lot of work for 60 domains (a lot of which have different servers & main domains) when it should be a quick setting change. Plus I kind of don't want them to have the business if they're being so greedy!

Transferring the domains to another registrar is going to cost you money as well.

**davemerry** · 26 August 2011, 6:33 am

I know someone who recently paid to do this as well, I was shocked! Which registrar is it?

**baldidiot** · 26 August 2011, 6:52 am

It was uk2. They used to just do it for me, and then one day I had a message from support saying I had to purchase DNS management and change it myself.

That's not a bad idea though, I have a VPS I can set up a nameserver on and send them all through that. It's just a PITA though - I don't see how registrars think they can get off charging twice the price of the domain just to redirect it.

**davemerry** · 26 August 2011, 6:58 am

Ah yes, UK2 was the same as the guy I was chatting to the other day, I just assumed he was doing something wrong but obviously not. Rip-off!

**rak** · 27 August 2011, 9:26 pm

Originally Posted by baldidiot

It was uk2. They used to just do it for me, and then one day I had a message from support saying I had to purchase DNS management and change it myself.

That's not a bad idea though, I have a VPS I can set up a nameserver on and send them all through that. It's just a PITA though - I don't see how registrars think they can get off charging twice the price of the domain just to redirect it.

How did you set up private nameservers using your registrar and VPS (am using WHM) ? I'm having problems doing this right now! I've only registered a domain, and have my VPS account.

**baldidiot** · 28 August 2011, 6:46 am

Originally Posted by rak

How did you set up private nameservers using your registrar and VPS (am using WHM) ? I'm having problems doing this right now! I've only registered a domain, and have my VPS account.

I did it using WHM too - you need have two dedicated IP's, so you might need to ask for another one for the VPS (mine only came with one). And you'll need to add nameserver subdomains to your domain (eg: ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com) to point to the IP's, either by changing it yourself or asking the registrar to do it if you don't have access.

Then it's just a case of using the nameserver set up wizzard in WHM: http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/vie...%20Nameservers

It's not too difficult. One disadvantage of using your own nameserver on a VPS is that if it goes down, it takes with it all of the domains and emails you have routed through it (I learnt this the hard way whem my VPS went down for a week!).

**rak** · 28 August 2011, 7:23 am

Thanks man!

I ended up getting the two IPs setup in my registrar.. trying to find the place to add the ns1 , ns2 took about a day and a half. What a pain in the ass!

I've started setting up the WHM side of things now. Things look pretty straight forward from here.

The hosting solution I am using has my stuff setup on a cloud network, they guarantee 100% uptime. "If for any reason we fail to meet our SLA commitments, you will receive a credit for 10 times (1,000%) the actual amount of time you were affected."

Support is also 24/7 phone and email - Ive tested it.. and theres always someone there.

**baldidiot** · 30 August 2011, 9:14 am

Originally Posted by rak

Thanks man!

I ended up getting the two IPs setup in my registrar.. trying to find the place to add the ns1 , ns2 took about a day and a half. What a pain in the ass!

I've started setting up the WHM side of things now. Things look pretty straight forward from here.

The hosting solution I am using has my stuff setup on a cloud network, they guarantee 100% uptime. "If for any reason we fail to meet our SLA commitments, you will receive a credit for 10 times (1,000%) the actual amount of time you were affected."

Support is also 24/7 phone and email - Ive tested it.. and theres always someone there.

Can I ask who that's with? I might be looking to move providers.

**rak** · 31 August 2011, 8:06 am

Originally Posted by baldidiot

Can I ask who that's with? I might be looking to move providers.

really happy with the blazing fast speeds I am getting.

www.liquidweb.com

**Leo** · 7 September 2011, 4:37 pm

Originally Posted by rak

really happy with the blazing fast speeds I am getting.

www.liquidweb.com

I have used liquidweb for a long time and they're good and reliable, although I don't keep gambling sites on that VPS due to wanting to keep those sites out of the USA - for that I use EuroVPS (good) and Clustered.net (best).

Originally Posted by rak

"If for any reason we fail to meet our SLA commitments, you will receive a credit for 10 times (1,000%) the actual amount of time you were affected."

In my experience hosts almost always manage to successfully blame any problem on an 'upstream provider', or hardware failure 'in a data center not operated by us' etc., thereby avoiding responsibility and any credit for downtime!

**universal4** · 7 September 2011, 5:45 pm

In my experience, better hosts do NOT make excuses and tell their clients the truth....but the LARGER hosts do NOT always tell clients the truth.

Most problems can usually be traced back to equipment failures.

Rick
Universal4

**Casinorep** · 7 September 2011, 7:06 pm

Who are you currently using? Have you tried Godaddy?

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