The Demise Of .gb.com And Why UK Businesses Should Avoid Pseudo Domain Names

This month we received an email from a business owner whose website and email accounts disappeared overnight. Not good news for any business. Our first thought was that she had simply not renewed her domain name, but that wasn't the case. Instead, her chosen domain name extension - .gb.com - had simply ceased to exist. more

Domain Names - The Marketing Spend That Keeps On Giving

Place an ad in your local newspaper, and you’ll have to do the same again next week. Start a Google Adwords Pay Per Click (PPC) campaign, and as soon as you stop spending, the traffic to your website stops too. A domain name isn’t like that. Once bought, the only ongoing cost of a domain name is the small annual renewal fee, and yet it will keep on delivering customers to your business year after year after year. more

Choosing The Best Domain Name For A UK Business

Here in the UK we are conditioned into using .co.uk domain names. That's why we default to ebay.co.uk and not ebay.com, amazon.co.uk and not amazon.com, and so on. Nominet research consistently shows that more than 80% of British internet users prefer to use a .co.uk website over a .com or other extension when buying goods and services so choosing a .co.uk for your UK business is a total no-brainer. more

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