Domain Names

Active Design Wales can, if required, provide a domain name registration service for clients using our website design or marketing services. We use a 3rd party domain registering company and always take care to register the domain with the client as the domain name owner. This is very important as transferring ownership of domains can be a lengthy and complicated business.

Unless requested otherwise, we use one of our email addresses as the contact address. In our experience many clients change email addresses within 2 years and forgetting to renew your domain name in time means either losing it or paying a large fee to regain its use. In contrast to the details of domain name owner, changing contact details is quick and easy.

Domain name costs

We only register domains for clients of our website design and marketing work, and the domain name costs are included within the quotation.

Specific Costs

.co.uk - £10
.com - £15
.net - £15
.info - £15
.biz - £15

Choosing a domain name

The best domain names are:

Short
Include the company name
Memorable

The above list of requirements is usually impossible to satisfy completely, and so a compromise must be chosen for the best domain name(s) to use. Many businesses try to register both the .com and .co.uk domain names to avoid confusion with competitors.

If you have a well known company name, then using this in your domain name makes good sense, as your website will be easily identified and your company name strengthened.