Search for a domain name’s availability with Heart Internet from your desktop with our brand new Windows 7/ Vista sidebar gadget.
Simply type in the domain name you want, with or without an extension (e.g. co.uk or .com), and click ‘Domain Search’. You will then be taken to our domain search results page with the opportunity to register the domain name if it is available.
Click here to download the domain search sidebar gadget
You can see the gadget in action to the right of the screen grab below…
Name:Matthew Telfer
About:Matthew is Heart Internet's Marketing Manager, and has held senior marketing positions in the web hosting industry for half a decade. With a passion for online marketing, Matthew is responsible for shaping strategy and developing the Heart Internet brand.
Tags: Domain Names
Nominet has recently launched a brand new feature that allows all domain name resellers to have their details listed alongside the registrar’s (i.e. Heart Internet) on WHOIS and in renewal emails for their clients.
It can be confusing for the end customer to receive emails with the registrar’s details but not the reseller who they had bought the domain through, so this is a great step forward for all domain name resellers and your customers.
If you would like Nominet to display your contact information in the domain WHOIS results and any emails that are sent to your domain customers then please enter your details in the form found here in your Reseller Control Centre https://customer.heartinternet.co.uk/manage/tag-prefs. Once you have completed the form all future registrations and transfers will automatically have your information stored with them. Please note: The update is not instant and does take a few days to be processed and put live by Nominet.
Name:Jonathan Brealey
About:As a Director and Co-founder of Heart Internet, Jonathan developed the company based around innovative features, user-friendly functionality and excellent customer support. Jonathan has been a key player in shaping the UK web hosting industry since 1997, having co-founded WebFusion with Tim Beresford.
Tags: Domain Names, Reseller Hosting
Over the years, there have been more and more companies selling domain names. When the internet was in its infancy, these companies were quite sparse; you really had to look around for a suitable company. Even if you were lucky enough to find a good seller for domains, the chances are that they would have charged the earth for almost all of the available domain names.
Fortunately, things have changed dramatically. It seems that every second company on the internet is trying to sell domain names, space or provide web hosting. The bad aspect of this is that you find that a lot of these companies try to undercut each other and therefore offer a poor service. They will happily sell you a domain name and then that’s often the end of it. They’ll offer no additional services and provide you with no extra help.
At Heart Internet we are a welcome break from this unfortunate trend. We do sell domain names but unlike other companies we offer a huge range of features to go with this. We provide free web forwarding to another web address; this is useful if you have free web space with another provider or you want to forward to the same domain but with a different domain extension, for example a .com to a .co.uk. We provide unlimited email forwarding to any email address you choose. There really are too many features to list here but you can be certain that no domain name seller will come close to what we offer.
Name:Stuart Gilbert
About:One of the key members of the Heart Internet Developer team, Stu joined the company in 2008 and has various responsibilities including the development of customer tools, HostPay, and the maintenance of the blog.
Tags: Domain Names
For a limited time only we are selling .me domain names for only £3.79, that’s a massive 75% off our normal price. Since it became available in 2008, there has been over 320,000 .me domain names registered worldwide to date, which makes it the fastest selling debut top level domain ever.
.me is one of those great extensions that is instantly memorable and lets you create fantastic word combinations to make your website stand out. .me domain names are great for…
- Your online CV/ portfolio
- Your personal blog
- Creating memorable domains names e.g. contact.me or find.me etc
- A corporate micro-site
- Creating you own URL shortening service e.g. www.wp.me
Click here to search for your .me domain name
Name:Matthew Telfer
About:Matthew is Heart Internet's Marketing Manager, and has held senior marketing positions in the web hosting industry for half a decade. With a passion for online marketing, Matthew is responsible for shaping strategy and developing the Heart Internet brand.
Tags: Domain Names
Forgetting to renew a domain name or not updating payment details happens to the best of us; even large businesses have had a few days of panic after failing to renew their domain name (e.g. London toy store Hamleys’ failure to renew hamleys.com) or you may change your mind once the cancellation period has started.
In the event this happens to you, or if you are a reseller, one of your customers, all is not lost! In the renewals section of the Heart Internet Customer Control Panel you can now renew domain names that have been set to cancel or have not been automatically renewed due to a failed payment.
The section is called “Cancelled Domain Names” and is at the bottom of the page. Cancelled domains will appear in here for 28 days, the customer can click for the domain to be moved back into the main renewals list where they can either renew it now or let it be auto renewed on the next try.
Name:Jonathan Brealey
About:As a Director and Co-founder of Heart Internet, Jonathan developed the company based around innovative features, user-friendly functionality and excellent customer support. Jonathan has been a key player in shaping the UK web hosting industry since 1997, having co-founded WebFusion with Tim Beresford.
Tags: control panel, Domain Names, Heart Internet
We are often asked about what domain extensions are available, and there’s actually a lot more of them than you might imagine. Although some have some specific uses, such as .travel for tourism related websites and .biz domains for businesses, the vast majority of domain extensions are country related, such as .uk for the United Kingdom and .ie for Ireland.
In the same way that the countries of the world change over time, so do domain extensions, with Yugoslav (.yu) domains being largely replaced with domain extensions for the newly created countries which were formed from the break-up of Yugoslavia such as .si for Slovenia and the upcoming .me extension for Montenegro. Then there are extensions which are just created as the need arises such as the .eu extension for the European Union which has been live for a few years. A complete list of the domain extensions currently approved by ICANN along with links to the various registry sites is available at:
http://www.norid.no/domeneregistrering/index.en.html
Many domain registries have specific rules on who can register a certain domain and sometimes restrictions on what type of site it must be, or in the case of .mobi domains how the site should be visible to users and on what type of devices. Some registries issue domains rather than allow them to be registered at all such as .mil for US Military websites, and some will only allow the person who wishes to own the domain to register it directly with the registry. Others insist you are a resident of the country involved before you can register a domain with them. In essence, each domain registry is free to make up its own rules and regulations on what can be registered and who can register them.
As you can see that makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to be able to register some domain extensions, but that does not mean that we cannot host them. Providing customers can register the domain involved themselves and have it placed onto our nameservers, we can host any domain extension with the use of a domain reference on any paid-for hosting account and the nameservers to use are listed in our Support Database.
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