Looking for an affordable domain name for your business?
One of the things that we at Forest Software do is register
domain names for the smaller business or charity. As a service
to our existing and prospective clients we
can now offer you a way
of
checking
to
see
if the domain name you
want
is available.
There is no obligation to use us to register your company's
domain name, you can do so yourself after using the form
below to check on the availability by using the 'register'
link on the results page. If you click on the 'register'
link you will be taken to our partner 123-reg.co.uk and
will be able to register the domain directly using their
website.
If you do not want to process the registration of the domain
name yourself you may contact
us and
for a small fee we will register the domain for you in your
name. As a guide we currently charge £10 + vat to
register a .uk domain for the two year period and £25 + vat
for a .com domain for two years. We also promise to register
the domain in your company/business/charity name and not
in our own name.
Please note that if you want Forest Software Ltd to host your website on one of our servers but want to register the domain yourself using 123-reg.co.uk you should select "No Hosting" when you reach that point on the domain registration process.
To check on a domain name please enter just the name with
no extensions or prefixes, eg to check for www.forestsoftware.co.uk
enter forestsoftware into the form and make sure that
either the .uk or the all button is on.
You should note that all .uk domains must be registered
for a two year period whilst other domains can be registered
for any period between 1 and 10 years. You should also be
aware that .uk domains are confirmed by letter by the central
naming authority (Nominet), although this may take several
months to occur. Other domains such as .com, .biz, .net etc
are not confirmed, you may however use the form below to
check the registration (click on details next to the domain
name on the results page) - please allow about 24 hours after
the domain name has been registered to allow time for databases
etc to be updated.
MRWhois v. 2.0
Important
Nominet, the UK naming authority have a set
of rules
for all .uk domains that you are advised to read.