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Meet Our Customers – Whitespace Publishers Ltd

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Lincolnshire PrideOur first installment in the ‘Meet Our Customers‘ series features one of our oldest (and we hope, happiest!) customers, Whitespace Publishers Ltd. Based in Boston in Lincolnshire, Whitespace produces a variety of publications including  Lincolnshire Bride and Groom, The Skeggy Guide and their flaghsip publication, Lincolnshire Pride.

Whitespace has been hosting with simplewebhosting.co.uk since 2001 and have also made great use of our web design service to manage the creation and day to day running of their flagship magazine’s web presence.

Managing Editor, Robin Davis demands the absolute best service when it comes to their company website. “Our advertisers need to know that their online presence is available  24/7 enabling them to maximise their return on investment.”

simplewebhosting.co.uk have proved themselves as experts when it comes to reliability. We just don’t experience the problems we’ve seen with other, much larger web hosts and the freephone technical support is amazing!”

With a team of 20 staff accessing e-mail constantly throughout the day and from around the county using mobile devices, reliability is key.

“Advertising and editorial copy is dropping into our mailbox constantly and, as in any publishing industry, deadlines are critical. simplewebhosting.co.uk ensures our office is never without service.”

Functionality is brilliant; our website doesn’t just work well but it looks great too which is important for a magazine that prides itself on exceptional design. Despite having no internal web design staff, we can still have a site that mataches the quality of our magazine in terms of feature set and development.”

Robin goes on to say “To me the best thing about simple web hosting is that we can create and manage our own e-mail addresses and that we have a good looking, editorially-rich site which we can easily content manage that provides us with multiple revenue streams.”

Find out how you can be included in a future ‘Meet Our Customers’ feature.

.tel is live!

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

The .tel domain is unique in that it allows you to store, publish and update online all your contact information and keywords under your domain name, without the need for a website. Registrations are for a minimum of 1 year to a maximum of 10 years and costs £9.99 per year.

The .tel enables you to create a fully interactive and live communications hub to take control over how and where customers communicate with you. Using YourCompany.tel, you can publish all your means of communication, for example: phone, mobile, fax, premium numbers, VoIP and IM handles and email addresses. You can also store web links, geo-location data and keywords describing your business.

Have a look at our .tel domain name

All about .info

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

The .info generic top-level domain was introduced in 2001 and has since grown to be one of the most widely used TLDs on the Internet. .info domains, as the extension would suggest, tend to be used mainly for websites where the primary goal is to provide information. You’ll find everything from travel information sites to government sites. Golf lovers can visit the home of the PGA while geeky-types can learn all about regular expressions online.

The .info Registry runs a directory of sites and anyone can submit their sites for inclusion in the listing.

.info Quick Facts

  • Afilias is the Registry operator for .info.
  • Anyone can buy a .info domain.
  • There were approximately 5.2 million .info domains registered as of April 2008.
  • .info is the fourth largest gTLD on the internet, after .com, .net and .org.
  • The word ‘info’ means ‘information’ in 37 languages.
  • .infois the fastest growing new TLD to date.

What domain name(s) should I register?

Monday, March 9th, 2009

One of the questions we get asked most often by new customers is “What domain name(s) should I register?”

There are few factors you should take into account when deciding what type of domain name(s) you want for your new website.

Firstly, what type of website is it?

  • If you’re a charity or other non-profit making organisation then you might want to register a .org or .org.uk domain. This type of domain clearly shows visitors to your website what you’re about.
  • If your website is a personal or family website, you can register a .me or .me.uk domain name. Although technically the official domain of Montenegro, .me has been widely adopted as the domain name for personal websites. .me.uk would make a good UK alternative.
  • Businesses and commerical entities have quite a few different options. The most popular being .com for websites doing business around the world or .co.uk for UK companies. People often ask which is best? There’s no definative answer here but as a rule of thumb, if you’re located in the UK and predominantly do business in the UK, we’d recommend a .co.uk.

What about registering more than one domain? One way to get round the decision of whether you should choose a .com or a .co.uk is to register both! Domains name are so cheap these days that you can protect your brand for less than £20 a year for the two domains.

If you’re looking for 100% brand protection then you could end up spending a lot of money on registering domains. At simpledomainnames.co.uk we can currently register 59 different domains!

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