It may be argued that nothing is as important as choosing the correct domain name, and hopefully the information below will help you choose the one for you. Your domain name tells the world all about you, and there are many ways of choosing a domain name.

To ensure that you get the best results on search engines, you should register either the name of your company (e.g: mybusiness.com), or the generic name of the service or product you supply (e.g: plumber.com)

Naturally most, if not all generic names are now taken, unless yours is a very niche market, so we'd recommend that you choose the domain closest to your trading name as you can find.Large companies with big TV advertising budgets can get away with the likes of elephant.co.uk to sell insurance, but for most people that's not an option, and in any case such a domain would cost many thousands of pounds, assuming that it was for sale. Therefore, you should be looking to a close match of your trading name in with the suffix of either

.co.uk, .com, .net, .info or .biz

Other suffixes, such as .tv or .uk.com may also be considered as a last resort, and these can be ordered by special request only.

Please note that you do not have to register or transfer your domain to us to take advantage of our excellent hosting facilities; you can simply change the nameservers to ours which are:

Primary: ns1.spalford.com
Secondary: ns2.spalford.com