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Manufacturing domain names to register

By 123 Reg - May 1, 2008

I personally don’t register a lot of domain names. The domains I do own tend to those I stumbled across that I can’t believe no one else has already got, or I...

Owners of .web.com domains: read this!

By John - March 31, 2008

This one’s important for anyone who owns a domain ending in .web.com which they control through a 123-reg account. (The information below only applies to domains ending in .web.com – all other .com...

Scotland seeks its own domain name extension

By John - March 31, 2008

We’ve been chatting about an interesting story in the office this morning: the Scottish National Party wants to establish a top level domain (TLD) for Scotland. The story has been covered by...

123-reg: first to a million .uk domains

By John - March 26, 2008

123-reg has become the first .uk tag holder to amass over a million domains on a single tag.   What does this mean? Well, essentially, we’re now responsible for the management of over a...

30% off new domains with web hosting

By 123 Reg - March 13, 2008

Back in February, we added brand new domains to our portfolio. These include: .cn (China) .es (Spain) .at (Austria) .be (Belgium) To celebrate the new additions to our domain portfolio, we are giving 30% off each of...

Spot the tricks and stop domain name scams

By John - March 10, 2008

We wrote about a typical domain name scam a couple of weeks ago. Since then, a couple of people in the office have been targeted, so we thought we’d revisit the subject...

The economics of domain disputes

By John - February 21, 2008

Another day, another well known name involved in a domain name dispute. This time it’s The Economist, which has failed to wrestle control of theeconomist.com from a chap called Jason Rose. He bought...

The longest domain in the world?

By John - February 15, 2008

For some reason, conversation in the office earlier this week turned to long domain names. Specifically, we were wondering what the longest domain name in the world is. A quick bit of research...

How to avoid domain name scams

By John - February 14, 2008

There’s a nice post over on the Tucows blog warning about fake domain name renewal notices. Tucows is a wholesale domain name registrar, so the advice is aimed mainly at other domain...