Domain name management is one of the most commonly neglected aspects of maintaining an online presence. This is surprising considering that almost all the services that we use on the Internet rely on functioning domain names - email and web sites in particular. When your domain goes down, so does everything else that is tied to it. We place a strong emphasis on managing the security and reliability of our customers' domains in order to ensure that you remain in control of your domain and that your services stay up.

Registration 

 We have extensive experience in registering domains as well as purchasing them from third parties. Please check our pricing for costs involved in registering new domains. All registrations and transfers are done by hand, ensuring that all potential issues are dealt with.

Security

Most domain holders live with a false sense of security as to their control over their own domain name. It is surprisingly simple to hijack many domains. Famous examples include nike.com, which was pointed to an anti-Nike web site developed by 'hacktivists', and aljazeera.net, the web site belonging to the well-known Arabic news network. Sometimes this happens as a result of forgery, however in many cases it is a result of ISPs and registrants leaving doors wide open for hijackers to walk straight through. For the right price, we audit your domains for vulnerabilities and take measures to upgrade the security of the systems that control the information attached to your domain, making changes where appropriate and providing you with a summary of the problems we found and how we fixed them.

Monitoring

Our systems can monitor your domain information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and notify us of any unexpected changes or problems. We receive instant notification via email and SMS and will block any attempts to modify your domain details that have not been authorised by the domain owner. This not only helps us intercept attempts to compromise your domain but also allows us to detect more common problems such as server outages and dropped domains.

Licensing

Surprisingly, one of the most common reasons for interruptions to service is simply that domain name licences expire after a certain period of time, and their owners neglect to renew them. This can be for a number of reasons, usually because contact information associated with the domain is out of date and invoices are never received or not paid on time. In any case, most domain holders are unaware of when their domains are scheduled to expire, and often only realise once it is too late. As part of our domain name services we can track the billing cycles on your domain and actually renew your domain name for you before you ever become aware of a problem.

Our approach is to continually monitor the contact information associated with your domain and ensure that it is kept up to date. Because contacts within your organisation and their email addresses often change we also place ourselves as a contact on your domain in order to ensure that we maintain the ability to modify your domain and receive information about billing and changes. We also monitor the registries and authorities that control your domain name for changes that might affect your services, as well as providing advice on registering new domains.

DNS Hosting

Every domain name is tied to a number of DNS servers, which are the machines that provide directions for any requests made against your domain name. For instance, when someone emails This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , the DNS servers tell the email which mail server it should be delivered to. When people access your web site, the DNS servers tell your web browser which machine your site is located on. If the information on the DNS servers is incorrect or inaccessible, then so are all the services tied to your domain. Without robust and reliable DNS hosting there is little point in having email or a web site. Most ISPs provide DNS hosting as a part of their service, but many do not do a very good job of it.

As part of our service we offer to host your DNS, which means you can easily transfer your web site or email between ISPs. We can configure additional hostnames (such as sales.yourdomain) for use with email, web sites or other services, we can configure secondary MX records and mail servers to provide increased reliability for your email services and so forth. We can make changes quickly and efficiently so that stray requests during change-overs are minimised. We use a variety of DNS servers on a distributed network, so that should one of them become inaccessible the others will take over and keep your services online.

Secure your domain today

We have extensive expertise in all facets of registering and maintaining domain names. Contact us today to find out how we can help protect your intellectual property and online assets.