How do you go about buying a web site?

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

I want this

http://www.thomasjames.co.uk/

is it available ?? and how would I go about getting it ?

Thanks

Tom

 

[Beef-Mc]

Would have to get in tocu with whoever owns the domain i would guess.

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

sorry ? you might as well be speaking German...............

 

[theduck]

Deatils of site and owner:

Domain name:
thomasjames.co.uk

Registrant:
Global Publications Ltd

Registrant type:
UK Individual

Registrant's address:
Mara House, 5 Mara Place
Campbell Park
Milton Keynes
Buckinghamshire
MK9 3FS
GB

Registrar:
Namesco Limited t/a Namesco Ltd [Tag = NAMESCO]
URL: http://www.names.co.uk

Relevant dates:
Registered on: 23-Jul-2001
Renewal date: 23-Jul-2009
Last updated: 17-Jul-2007

Registration status:
Registered until renewal date.

Name servers:
ns0.phase8.net
ns1.phase8.net
ns2.phase8.net

WHOIS lookup made at 12:41:34 17-Jun-2008

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

so you just contact them and see if they want to sell it ?

 

[theduck]

yes

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

what about www.thomasjamesfs.co.uk, no one seems to own that ? how do I go about owning something like that?

 

[sh33n]

https://secure.internic.co.uk/cart/....co.uk&dex=.co.uk&submit=Order&cwaction=check

 

[sh33n]

Or use a different host (if you also require hosting) such as 34sp.com

 

[theduck]

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/domains/...DomainsSubPanel&utm_campaign=HomepageTracking

 

[Griff]

https://secure.internic.co.uk/cart/....co.uk&dex=.co.uk&submit=Order&cwaction=check

£12.99?!? Sod that..

http://www.123-reg.co.uk/order?domain=www.thomasjamesfs.co.uk&ajax_enabled=true

 

[sh33n]

^ cheap

Actually not that cheap if you also want email.

 

[theduck]

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/domains/...DomainsSubPanel&utm_campaign=HomepageTracking

buy the .com and get the .co.uk free

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

Just registered a site for my future financial services company.

registered for 2 yrs, I assume now I need to get web space etc?

As you can tell I am new to all this!

 

[theduck]

lol. yes you will need webspace. by sounds of it I would recommend whoever builds your site sorts the rest for you

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

I am a fast learner!!! lol

Goes off to acquire dreamweaver.....

 

[theduck]

for hosting then look at either www.fasthosts.co.uk or www.1and1.co.uk

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

fast host is who I registered my domain with.

Do you like that ^ how far have I come in a few posts lol !?!

 

[theduck]

doing good. just need learn html, css, php, java, sql, and which ever other languages you'll need to program it

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

Or I might just pay a geek ?

 

[theduck]

Geeks FTW

 

[jon_r]

If you do need a website to be built then feel free to drop me a pm and ill give you a price dependant on spec.

 

[seb]

Or I might just pay a geek ?

definetely get a geek, plus i can vouch for Jon_r. Did an awesome job for me, all within budget and was tre good at communications etc during the process and making exactly what i wanted.

Jon will vouch for my classy scanned ''diagrams'' lol

 

[Sarah]

Or I might just pay a geek ?

its not that hard to do a basic one.....but im getting u want it to look professional.......so pay a geek

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

I am going to need someone to host my site, the site where I have my domain registered offers this basic package:

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting/windows-home/

anyone got any links to other sites ?

 

[Munday]

I have used Uggle in the past who were very good. I currently use Bluehost who are very good but the package might be a bit overkill for your requirements.

 

[Cookie]

Please, please don't use Fast Hosts if you want any reliability

Try *cough* http://www.titaninternet.co.uk/

 

[theduck]

Please, please don't use Fast Hosts if you want any reliability

Try *cough* http://www.titaninternet.co.uk/

5 years and no down time

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

5yrs where? ^

 

[theduck]

thats with fasthosts. Company i worked for previously hosted their site with them and we had no issues at all.

 

[Cookie]

thats with fasthosts. Company i worked for previously hosted their site with them and we had no issues at all.

First person I've heard of that's never had issues with Fast Hosts.. we get thousands of customers on the back of FastHosts being utter pish

Here's a link to tales of their shitness: http://search.theregister.co.uk/?q=fasthosts

 

[theduck]

All to do with the password resets and being locked out of their accounts. I know the story behind this and to be honest it was end user faults.

 

[tomdbomb61_djtj]

Please, please don't use Fast Hosts if you want any reliability

Try *cough* http://www.titaninternet.co.uk/

If my domain is being held by fasthosts, but I want the above to do my webspace is this easy to do ? ( you will need to pardon my complete no existant knowledge of how webspace works for now!!)


Also, storage space , this is how much content I can place on my site at any one time?

And bandwidth is how many people can view and do things on my site in 1 month ?

 

[theduck]

Storage is space is how much content you can upload. For most sites sites you need f**k all.

bandwidth is how much data can be downloaded from your site, this includes every page etc etc.

 

[jon_r]

Or I might just pay a geek ?

definetely get a geek, plus i can vouch for Jon_r. Did an awesome job for me, all within budget and was tre good at communications etc during the process and making exactly what i wanted.

Jon will vouch for my classy scanned ''diagrams'' lol

You won't believe me, but they were better than some I get!

Thanks for the kind comments mate.

 

[Munday]

I had loads of problems with Fasthosts when I used them a few years back, might have got a lot better since though.