[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

[Matthew Revell]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:56:48 +0100, Stuart Langridge <sil at kryogenix.org> wrote:
> sparkes wrote:
> > go to a website that looks up names in the whois database to see if they
> > are free  123reg.co.uk is about as cheap as they come so enter the name
> > on there and they will tell you if it's available and won't charge a lot
> > for it.
> 
> Do Not Do This.
> 
> You have a Linux box. Use "whois whatever.co.uk" from the command line.
> Typing it into a website to do it is dangerous; some of them will assume
> from your search that you're looking to register that domain and will
> then register it *themselves* so they can charge you fifty quid for it
> rather than about a tenner.

Woah, there. Not used to such paranoia from one such as yourself. Yes,
such arseholes do exist but in the extreme minority and 123-reg are a
straight, honest registration company, owned by Pipex. I could, of
course, recommend UKreg, for whom I work :)

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Matthew Revell
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