andyrich666

are you talking to me, I didnt know I had done this, Im not taking anyone away from anyone, every time I reply to a computer type post I get flamed, I shall not bother any more,

I certainly did not mean to be insulting or offensive, I didnt reply back because I did not see you edited it.

Help !!!

rugbymatt

Bugger, I do try!

sjrw

I think I had better rename myself devils advocate...
I hope I have not upset poor andy...
Or (if you're one of those hosting chappies) not-so-poor andy.

Still, it's made for an interesting thread, and there are quite a few ideas floating around here now.

Hosters are a double edged sword. A necessary evil. I just like to see what I have done, on my own pc (as I used to share a lot) and the fact that it saves a bit is a bonus.

Highly strung....??
Well, yes dahling, we artistically temperamented peoples need a release.

I think I need to apologise to Andy here. Just call me misunderstood, passed by and manic. Oh give me a reflex to do - it relaxes both participants.

andyrich666

no worries its fine, lol, the hosting run's at a small loss, but at least Now I see where your coming from. I not commited enough to push it, could do with some re-sellers really to throw it in the open.

Elle1971

Hi guys... and thanks for the plug Bigbhudda (We'll still give you a discount if you want your site designed lol... I did promise, if I remember rightly!)

We can sort your hosting out for you Aspeangel. We use a really reliable company. Forget the days of downtime etc... The one we use has been great so far. We don't host it ourselves, as we've found these guys more than cost effective, secure, and reliable.

We've actually never bothered buyig a .es on behalf of a client, or for ourleves. So cannot advise on whether you have to be a registered business or not. We'd recommend going down the .eu route, or preferably .com anyway. Google is quite pedantic when it comes to geographic location - they call it "tailoring to your needs". Yeah right... but if you have a business that needs an international reach - then you want to be featured on an international search result... and the .com will help that somewhat. Of course you still need to have decent content, metatags, and all the other stuff that bumps you up the ranks, as others have mentioned. If you have a real niche - then you'll generally get up there anyway. But if I had a euro for every client who has a "holiday" company and wants to be number 1 in Google... well, I'd be sipping wine in the sunshine all day instead of working. They forget they're competing with the likes of Thomas Cook, Expedia, and the rest!

Yes, so do drop me a PM if interested Aspeangel.

Elle xx

PS: Sorry I've been noticeable by my absence guys and gals - business is booming, as the saying goes, and I've been neglecting you all. I must pop in more often!

Can't believe we're just coming up for our first anniversary in the Canaries - time flies eh?!

XTreme

Some of the advice given in this thread (though I'm sure well intentioned) is totally incorrect.

.es domains can be bought by anybody.....the regulations that prevented them being sold to non Spanish reg business was abolished TWO YEARS AGO!

I have a number of clients running on these domains because their market is Spanish based. However, If your market is UK based then go for a .co.uk. if possible.

And if you want to buy a .es just go to EuroDNS and you'll own one in five minutes.

Sorted in 30 seconds!

valenciatim

Many Thanks for that! I was unaware that the rules had changed. And as you said, sorted in 30 seconds!
Regards
Tim

barcapat

Hi, I've been registering quite a lot of domains lately, so thought I'd share my experiences.

For both .com and .co.uk domain names (plus many other non country specific domains .net etc) I found the strangely-named but very professional GoDaddy.com to be the best place. .com for $7 a year and .co.uk for $17.98 a year - as far as I could tell, easily the best prices and still a good service, with full controls over DNS etc.

Then the last few days, I've been looking into registering .es names. It seems currently you can only register .es domain names with a Spanish provider. After a bit of Googling, I found piensasolutions.com where you can get your .es names for 7 Euros a year, plus IVA, so 7.12 Euros a year. This also includes domain parking and a control panel for DNS etc. In comparison to other offers, this was much cheaper. I registered 3 domains and all were done within an hour, and I checked the domain parking and it works fine. All good so far. Other suppliers want around 25-35 Euros per domain.

I'm not sure on the legal restrictions for registering a .es name but they do ask for an NIE as a required field, but no restrictions as to business names/company names/autonomo etc. That would be totally against the idea of the internet.

And one last word on web hosting, I found a great site called siteground.com who are excellent if your needs a bit more than a homepage. Their deal is $84 a year, including domain name, plus unlimited sub-domains, emails accounts, crazy amount of diskspace and traffic. Also they have really simple install scripts for things like Joomla, Mambo, Drupal, Wordpress etc. I managed to get a Joomla 1.5 install up and running in 2 hours with their tutorials.

eric4u

How about getting a eu site I have thought about this myself

Mitzyboy

yes, I have one

barcapat

.eu domains are available from piensasolutions.com for 7 Euros a year too (I'm not connected with them in anyway, just they have the best prices I've found)

I think the only rule to have a .eu domain name is that the registered address is in an EU country, although maybe they don't even bother with that anymore.