The .UK Registry Nominet has announced today that from 1st May 2012 the registration periods for all .UK domains will change to the more commonly used multi-year periods in the same wayas  .COM.

This means that users will be able to register .UK domains from between 1 year and 10 years enabling users more flexibility in their registrations as they can renew for longer without needing to worry about renewals.

What does this mean for .UK ?

This will have no impact on current registrations, it just means you will have the option to renew domains for up to 10 years come renewal.

XDnet plans to fully support this change in May and will announce pricing details closer to the time.

The Sunrise phase of the new .XXX domain launch came to a close on 28th October, and we will soon be moving onto the next phase of the launch process – Landrush.

Landrush kicks off on 8th November

Landrush provides a limited-time opportunity for those who didn’t qualify for Sunrise A, but still want to grab an awesome .XXX domain before General Availability.

Between 8th November and 25th November 2011 members of the adult Sponsored Community may apply for .XXX domains of their choice.

Unlike Sunrise there are no trademark or pre-ownership requirements for registrations made during landrush, however applicants must be part of the adult Sponsored Community to qualify.

Not first come, first served.

Unlike General Availability if there are multiple applications for the same domain during Landrush, the domain then goes into an auction process where applicants can bid against each other for the domain.

If you’d like to submit an application for a .XXX domain during Landrush please get in touch with XDnet support who can help you with this process and help you get an awesome new domain.

XDnet Web Services are pleased to launch even more domains bringing out current total to 151 domain TLDs available!

We now provide one of the widest selection of domain types available, with more than 30% of ALL TLDs available, and we are working hard with registries to provide even more! We are aiming to increase our selection further in the coming months and are aiming to support more than 45% of all available TLDs by 2012.

We of course want to celebrate this with a great 20% off most* domains when using promotional coupon “151tlds” at checkout! What are you waiting for? Get your domain now!

New Domain TLDs include:

As well as many others, check the out and grab yours today!

* Excluded TLDs include: .travel, .tm, .md, .jobs, .cm, .co.at, .ag, .af, .com.af, .net.af, .org.af

We are pleased to announce that we will now be accepting registrations for the new .CO domain.

The .CO domain is launching with the fantastic Registration price of just £25.00!  So grab your new .CO domain today, great for companies, community groups, commerce sites, committees and corporate websites and many many more… The possibilities are endless!

We are feeling extra generous and if you have already brought your .CO domain but would like to switch we are offering a special Transfer in price of just £19.00! And of course, an extra years registration is included FREE!

Contact us today to ensure you get your .CO domain!

Register your new .CO today!

As of the 1st July 2010 VeriSign who control the .COM and .NET domain names will be increasing their prices by 48 and 42 cents USD respectively. XDnet Web Services are determined to keep our prices the same so we are sticking to our current prices for the time being so you can rest assured that our prices remain the same

We are pleased to announce the new .tel TLD is now available with XDnet.co.uk

Because .Tel is a brand new TLD currently it isn’t as straightforward as registering your .com or .net domain, we will attempt at breaking this down step by step below.

The release schedule for .Tel domains are as follows:

Sunrise (Trademark Owner)

Sunrise for .Tel started Wednesday 3rd December 2008 3pm. Sunrise is the introductory period where trademark owners can claim their .Tel domain and to deter abusive, such as people bulk buying trademarked names, such as Apple.tel and Microsoft.tel

Trademark owners are welcome to register their trademark .Tel and should note:

• Application date for trademarks should before 30th May 2008
• If there are more than one valid applicant for a .Tel domain it will be processed in a “First come, first served” basis.
• The minimum registration period is 3 years

Landrush:

• Anyone is able to apply for a domain
• The minimum registration period is 3 years
• If there are more than one valid applicant for a .Tel domain it will be processed in a “First come, first served” basis.

To register your .Tel domain please contact XDnet directly via support ticket or live chat.

To find more information about .Tel domains, please visit the official .Tel website.

Prices

Below is a list of preliminary pricing which may be subject to change (up or down).

Minimum registry period is 3 years and is set by the registry (TelNic).

Sunrise: £100/yr

Landrush: £unknown. (Trying to get this ASAP)

Open: £12/yr

For more details take a look at telnic.org or contact XDnet.

Domains are a pain to pick, it always seems that the good ones are taken. However here are some great tips I have for creating a domain that is right for you.

• Be creative
• Keep it relevant
• .com it!

Be Creative

Coming up with a domain is hard work, but you don’t need to limit yourself to obvious words. Google.com is (believe it or not) a typo, it was going to be registered as Googol. Try and avoid common domains words (such as design, games and free) as this could lead to greater composition in your rankings.

Keep it relevant

If you website is about web hosting, make sure you have something about hosting in the name. Don’t what ever you do call it something completely irrelevant such as newtech or easypeazy, as this could making initial rankings hard to come by.

.com it!

If you have ever saw an average user at work they never seems to notice that you can have different extensions to a domain. In fact I was once telling something about a website (which ending in the .co.uk tld) and when they went to type it in they put sitename.co.uk.com. It could be that I work with tech-tards alot, but it’s safe to assume that if you can’t get your domain as a .com, it’s not worth the time.

And don’t forget, you can easily register your domain (in a large variety of different tlds) with XDnet so you can easily manage it within our client panel.

Check if your domain is available and get registering!

Sssh! Using the secret XDnet blog promo code blogdomain215 get up to 20%+ off your domain order!

All customers who purchase the business packages are entitled to a free domain name for the life of the package!

Applicable domains include:

• .BIZ
• .NAME
• .US
• .CO.UK
• .ME.UK
• .ORG.UK
• .ORG
• .NET
• .INFO
• .COM

Register today to recieve yours!

This promotion is for ALL business packages, including: Email Small Business, Email Business, Shared Hosting Business and SHOUTcast 1000.

Thats right, i have finally found myself a reasonable domain reseller, so i can proudly say XDnet is now in the domains business, providing cheap domains.

XDnet can now provide no fewer than 40 differenent TLD’s!

Prices starting from just £9, however discounts and hosting/domain packages will be on the site soon, so look out!

I have also spent a while moding up the Domain Avaliblity Checker which now has added features, like select all, and loading notifications!

Also been moding and styling the XDnet Client Area so things are only getting better!

XDnet can now provide a variety of cheap domain names for clients, starting from £9… Special offers coming soon! Ask sales for details!