Transferring a domain name and e-mail etc.

[Nick A J]

We currently have a .com domain name “parked” with bb-online which is due for renewal soon. Apart from the small renewal cost savings it would seem to simplify matters to transfer the name to F2S.

A number of questions arise:

At present emails (the main reason for the domain) are forwarded to our F2S account. Can the transferred domain name be used as one of our 20 names? If not do we have to pay an additional forwarding fee? How much?

We would also like to create a small website at the .com address (basically pointing to another site), again can this be achieved as part of our basic F2S package?

Also any help on the physical aspect of transferring the name etc. would be much appreciated.

Sorry if this has been asked before any previous answers seem to be months ago in separate threads so I’m not sure how up to date everything is.


Nick

[aos101]

No the transfered domain cannot be used as one of the 20 free email accounts you get with ADSL as they can only be @f2s.com or @subdomain.f2s.com, so if you want to have email on the domain with F2S you'll need to purchase the email hosting at £24 a year. For a website you could use your free website space you got with your ADSL and then forward the domain to your free webspace.

I see a 2 year registration with BBOnline is £49 so I can see why you want to move. If you want email and web forwarding it would probably be cheapest to transfer the domain to someone like 123Reg or 1and1 (who both offer email and web forwarding free) rather than transfering to F2S and paying £24 a year for full email accounts when you only want email forwarding.

[plesbit]

I can barely believe what I am seeing! £49 for a two year registration of a .co.uk address? How is this company in business still?

[aos101]

Originally Posted by plesbit

I can barely believe what I am seeing! £49 for a two year registration of a .co.uk address? How is this company in business still?

I know, but thats what their site says. I paid £1.99 a year I think.

[plesbit]

I know - I checked before posting. I wanted to make sure that there weren't some super-dooper hosting packages in there but nope, that's all extra!

[Nick A J]

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. Believe it or not a couple of years ago they were quite competitive (I thought). To be exact the renewal fee is "only!!" £37.00 + vat for 2 years for a dot com, thats still £20 more than the going rate. The .co.uk renewal fee is the same £37.

Methinks I'll be transferring my .com name elsewhere. Any personal experience of 1&1 or 123?

Nick

[aos101]

Originally Posted by Nick A J

Hi all,

Thanks for the replies. Believe it or not a couple of years ago they were quite competitive (I thought). To be exact the renewal fee is "only!!" £37.00 + vat for 2 years for a dot com, thats still £20 more than the going rate. The .co.uk renewal fee is the same £37.

Methinks I'll be transferring my .com name elsewhere. Any personal experience of 1&1 or 123?

Nick

I think they are both quite good. I have only used 1and1 for my domain, but they seem good. One difference I am aware of is that with 1and1 if you are only on their instant domain package and use their DNS servers you can only change the 'A' and 'MX' records and cannot create subdomains using their DNS servers on the basic package, but I think you can with 123reg.