Domain Name Registration
A domain name is your online address - your identity on the World Wide Web. Domain name registration is the process of registering and securing your chosen name for your website (e.g. www.mysite.com).
Having your own domain name is important for many reasons, including:
- Establishing your online identity – your domain name is owned by you (for an annual fee).
- Credibility – having your own domain name shows a professional and serious approach.
- Portability – your domain is independent of where your site is hosted (which is not true for most sites hosted by an ISP [Internet Service Provider] in which their name appears as part of the domain name).
- Search engines and directories – some of these will not list sites hosted on free web space provided by your ISP.
PSLWeb can register your chosen name for you for a nominal fee (you retain ownership of the domain name), or can advise you on how you may go about doing this yourself.
The cost of registering a domain name varies between companies who sell them (often resellers) and the type of name chosen (i.e. .com, .co.uk, .org etc.). This is an annual fee which you need to pay to keep your chosen domain name – if it expires you risk losing it.
For more information visit
the Nominet website (external link). Nominet is
the official regulatory authority for UK domain names.
