my own domain

Rdub

Hi I'm thinking of getting my own domain name with the view to hosting my own family website at a later date. I would also like to have a couple of email addresses attached to it. I'm wondering if anybody can recommend where I can get a good, cheap deal from?

aerostar

www.ukreg.com

domain around £2.95 + vat per year

You can have e-mails on your domain re-directed for free to your current ISP,

eg [EMAIL="fred@yourdomain.com"]fred@yourdomain.com[/EMAIL] directed to [EMAIL="xyz@yourcurrentisp.co.uk"]xyz@yourcurrentisp.co.uk[/EMAIL]

They also do a lowish cost hosting as well when you want, currently 4.99 + vat per month, but have an offer of first 3 months free. You do not need to have hosting with them, you can use someone else and have your domain pointed at whoever, again for free.

smcaul

Also have a look at https://www.domainmonster.com I have quite a few domians with them and have never had any issues - again you can forward email addresses on, or buy pop3 email boxes - I host my own email server so dont use that service. You also have full DNS control so an point the records to wherever you want to host your site.

Jemma-T

https://www.123reg.co.uk

Nice and easy. Even if you don't use them for hosting or site building you have access to email direction at no extra charge (ie divert you@yourdomain.co.uk to Hotmail etc).

JohalaReewi

1 and 1 - http://www.1and1.co.uk

Also you can get cashback via topcashback or quidco.

Tribulation

As others have said, there's various companies out there that offer them dirt cheap.

For example, 1and1 (who I am with) currently offer you a .co.uk domain for £2.99 per year. I have a mail hosting package with them which (for the next 6 days) is 1/2 price for 6 months meaning that for a whole year, you will pay something like

£5.88 for the mail hosting, this includes 5 separate mailboxes for family members to use and 150 mailbox aliases and numerous other goodies.

So in total will cost you £5.88 + £2.99x2 (have to pay for 2 years domainname with everyone I think) making a total cost of £11.86 for the first year. Then you can access your mail from anywhere and any ISP.

WORD OF WARNING, Some ISP's offer a free domainname (not talking about hosting companies such as 1and1). Be very wary. I took out what I believed to be a free domain with my ISP, I was led to believe it was registered on my behalf and I owned it. When I left that ISP, it turned out they owned it, not me and they wanted to charge me a whopping £75 to transfer it over to me when in reality it's 30 secs work for them and they don't get charged a penny by anyone else to transfer it, hence it was pure profit.