[Wolves] Web hosting for our church

[Wayne Morris]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 20:56, Stuart Langridge 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.
> 
> Aq.

Uk2.net is good for searches (and cheapish to register them to), type
say 'foo' and it will show you the results for foo.co.uk, .com , .net,
.ltd.co.uk, .org etc, all nicely tabulated showing whether they are
taken or not, links to see the website, whois etc if they are already
taken. Really useful.
Also have a domain name generator, you can bung in a string and it will
give you available domains like foo will give you foo999.co.uk etc.

Wayne