Domain Names - DTS Internet Solutions

Domain Names

Amazing value domain names

Buy your domain name in confidence with our low prices and free features. Our domain registration system is highly automated so we register your domain names quickly with no fuss.

Our fees are low all the time not just for special offers!

Domains	Prices from
.co.uk, org.uk, me.uk	£7.00/year
.com .net .org .biz	£12.00/year
.cc .uk.net .uk.com .tv	£30.00/year

Free with every domain name

We make domain name search and registration easy and all our domain names come with useful free features, such as web forwarding and unlimited email forwarding. Get these great features free with every domain name...

• Web Forwarding (multiple types)
• Unlimited Email Forwarding
• Catch-All Email Forwarding
• Change Name Servers
• No Fee For Changing Nominet Tag
• Easily Change Contact Information
• Full DNS Management
• Nominet Whois Opt Out
• Manage Everything Online Easily
• No Hidden Fees
• Upgrade to Web Hosting Instantly
• And Much More!

Tips on choosing a domain name

Keep it short, keep it simple

To find your site people need to be able to remember your address and easily type it into their browser. Aim to register the shortest name that your customers and visitors will associate with your website.

co.uk, com, eu, net, org...?

It is a good idea to register several similar domain names, particularly if you own a trademark for a certain name. If possible register the .co.uk, .com, .eu and .net. These are the most popular domain names and by registering all of them you can help to prevent cyber squatters and losing traffic.

Consider common typos

If you have a domain name that can easily by pluralised or miss-spelled consider registering those as well to stop traffic going elsewhere.

Don't shell out large amounts of money

Some companies still sell domain names for as much as £100 per year. Make sure you are getting a good deal!

Register your domain now!

You must register as soon as possible, or risk getting stuck with "the-domain-name-that-no-one-wanted.net". You do not have to have a Webmaster or an ecommerce department or a web design consultant... you don't even need a web page. Simply search for your domain name and register it yourself. Simple!

FAQs

How long will it take for my new domain name to become active?

Domains are registered as soon as you order them, however it can take between 24 and 72 hours for a domain name to become visible on the Internet as each DNS updates its database of domain names..

Can I buy a domain name, but not buy web hosting?

Yes, you do not have to buy the web hosting when you buy a domain name. If you decide to add web hosting in the future you can easily upgrade with one of our feature rich hosting packages.

Do I own the domain name?

Yes - unlike some companies we always register the domain in your name or in your customer's name if you are working on someone's behalf.

Can I transfer the domain at any time?

Yes, you can, and we provide a control panel so that you can make these changes yourself at any time and that's all included in the price.

Do I get a certificate of ownership for the domain I purchase?

In the past Nominet issued certificates as confirmation of the contract that exists between Nominet and the registrant and this continued until August 2003. Paper certificates and reply Forms have now been replaced by an online system called Registrants Online.

Web Hosting - DTS Internet Solutions

Web Hosting

We believe that web hosting is more than just providing web space and FTP access. Our aim is to provide individuals and businesses with everything they need to express themselves on the internet, be that through an idea or selling goods and services. Whatever you want to create a website for, be it a small family photo album or a full powered data base driven ecommerce website, your choice of web host is essential. The right web host will make the difference between a slow clunky site that has regular down time and a site that is always available and blisteringly fast!

6 reasons to choose us for your web hosting

	1. Quality hosting Our purpose built web hosting infrastructure is unrivalled in the UK for stability and reliability.
	2. Excellent customer service Our support database provides the answers to the majority of web hosting related questions and if you need to get in touch we are on hand to answer any questions you may have.
	3. Value for money Because all of our hosting technology has been developed by us in-house we don't have any expensive licensing fees to pass on to our customers. That means we can offer you more for less!
	4. We put you in control We believe in developing highly automated systems giving customers complete control of their web hosting. Our web hosting control panel is one of the most advanced available today.
	5. You can grow with us Our web hosting is ideal for a beginner starting their first website through to SME's demanding their own powerful ecommerce solution.
	6. Constant Monitoring and Security Upgrades We take our customer's security very seriously and all software is upgraded within 24 hours of new patches being released.

Our hosting technology

	Platform We only use Dell servers in our web hosting platform. Our platform is designed to be highly redundant and all data is stored in network disk arrays. Data is automatically synchronised between the arrays so that in the event of an array failing the remaining array continues to serve data to the servers with no downtime. Each array is also backed up each night to a separate backup cluster which is then written to tape and stored offsite.
	Data centre We utilise uninterruptable power supplies and an n+1 generator setup to ensure constant and clean energy to our infrastructure. The data centre is protected by fire suppression, monitored by CCTV both externally and internally, has 24x7x365 onsite security and the building is surrounded by an 8ft perimeter fence.
	Security We are automatically informed of new security patches via our vendor. Patches are applied within 24 hours. Our own platform is scanned each month for application vulnerabilities and we use a network scanner to identify weaknesses in our network.

Managing your website

Our control panel is one of the world's most advanced web hosting control panels currently available. Here is a quick summary of the great features available to our web hosting customers...

• Easy to use file manager
• File backup & restore
• Webmail and POP3/IMAP
• Web stats & logs
• Google SiteMap generator
• MySQL and phpMyAdmin
• Schedules tasks
• Full Ecommerce software
• One click install scripts including WordPress
• Check your account performance at a glance
• Download log files
• More than we can list here!

iPhone control panel

Customers can also manage their websites and hosting accounts on the move with our exclusive iPhone control panel which has all the same functionality of the standard control panel. This is free for all our web hosting customers.

• Manage your domain names
• Manage all your web hosting accounts
• Log in to your webmail
• View the system status updates
• View your Webalizer analytics statistics
• One click install CGI scripts such as WordPress
• View your invoices
• Backup & restore your website
• Conduct a WHOIS search for a domain name
• Set up scheduled tasks
• ...and much more!

We give you more!

We want our hosting customer's websites to be a success and with this in mind we also provide our hosting customers with one of the biggest CGI script libraries in the UK including one click install WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, BuddyPress, OpenX & Drupal.

	WordPress is arguably the most popular blogging software available today! It's easy to install and use and will allow you to have a great looking blog in minutes.
	BuddyPress is a suite of WordPressMU social networking plugins and themes to empower you to create your own social network.
	Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
	phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customisable open-source bulletin board package. phpBB3 has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ.
	Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users easily to publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website.
	Openads is a hugely popular advert server designed for web publishers. It gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With Openads you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites.
	& much more!

Web hosting terminology

New to web hosting? Here are some of the most common terms used...

Bandwidth

A term used by web hosts to describe how much data can pass from the server your website is hosted on to people visiting your web site. This includes the files that make up your website as well as any data downloaded from databases or media files.

ccTLD

A country code top level domain name. These domain names are associated with a country or geographic location e.g. .co.uk (UK), .fr (France and .cn (China). The ability to register these domain names from another country depends on the registrar's rules. For example, co.uk has no restrictions whereas .it (Italy) demands you are based in Europe.

Domain Name System

The system that maps domain names to the corresponding machine's IP addresses. This system is essentially a phone book that translates human friendly names into computer friendly numbers. Because this information is stored across multiple computers any updates to a domain (including registration and ownership details) can take up to 48 hours to work its way across all of them.

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

Once you are ready to see what your website looks like online, uploading the files to your web space is really easy and is often as simple as clicking, dragging and dropping. The method you will use to get your website online is called File Transfer Protocol (FTP). Don't be put off by the name, all this does is take the files from your computer and put them on to the web host's server for people to access. Simple!

In order to do this your web host may offer an upload function though your account with them, but that means you have to log in every time. A quicker alternative that most people use is FTP software. Some HTML editors come with this built in (e.g. Dreamweaver & Microsoft Expression Web) but even if yours doesn't there is the industry standard stand alone (which is free) to download called FileZilla.

HTML

HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) is the first layer of a web page and deals with the content (the text, any lists, tables, quotes...).

LAMP

LAMP is an acronym used to describe a set of open source software used by many people and businesses to save money and to prevent platform lock-in. Linux: Operating system
Apache: Web server
MySQL: Database
PHP: Program

MySQL

MySQL (owned and developed by Sun Microsystems) is the world's most popular open source database. It is also part of the open source software stack known as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).

Sub-Domain

Sub-domain names are domains that are part of the parent domain name. They are free to set up and can be useful if you have areas of your site you want to categorise e.g. dictionary.domain.com, thesaurus.domain.com

TLD

Top Level Domain Names have no association with any countries and were amongst the first to be created. E.g. .com, .net, .org.

Web Space

The amount of space allocated to your website by a web host to store all your files and data. The more web space you have the more information you can store.

New Hosting Services!

Here at DTS Internet Solutions we are always looking into ways of offering more to out clients and future customers and our most recent addition to our services is an upgraded hosting package!

This new hosting package allows us to host and set up easy 'one click installs' for clients.  If you want to buy a domain name and hosting and install online software, ie Wordpress.  It can be set up for you in a matter of minutes online with just one click, simple and straight forward for someone who doesn't know much about uploading files and setting up mysql databases.

Choose from our huge range of one click install scripts, ideal for any type of website...

WordPress WordPress is the world's most popular open source blogging platform, perfect for both commercial and personal use. Thanks to a massive community of designers and developers there are literally tens of thousands of themes, widgets and plugins available to download, meaning no two websites are ever the same. WordPress can be easily adapted for use as a standard CMS (content management system), so even if you don't need a blog, you can use WordPress to power your e-shop, photo gallery, video webpage, article-based site, directory or any other type of website you can think of.
Joomla Joomla is a user-friendly content management system with a huge range of features ready to use. The software is database-driven and ideal for web masters looking to develop, manage and edit web content without much technical knowledge. With a wide range of modules, components, plugins and languages available for free, you can customise and enhance your Joomla CMS to your specific requirements.
Drupal and Drupal7 Drupal is a highly customisable content management system with thousands of modules, themes and plugins to extend and alter its capabilities. Winner of multiple Open Source CMS awards Drupal is ideal for those wanting a versatile and expandable web content solution. Drupal CMS can be used for a wide range of sites, including single and multiple user blogs, forums, communities, magazines, e-commerce solutions, photography showcases, galleries and much more.
Concrete5 Concrete5 is a powerful CMS built with every level of web design experience in mind. The easy to use WYSIWYG style editing features make it easy for site owners to make changes on the fly with no previous web design experience. The software is also perfect for web designers and developers looking for a purpose built CMS designed to be as flexible as you need it to be. Concrete5 can be used for a wide range of sites, including personal and business websites, forums, communities, magazines, e-commerce solutions, photography showcases, galleries and much more.
phpBB Create your online community using the market leading forum software. With an extensive community of designers and developers creating and sharing modifications and styles to customise your forum, you can create a unique forum quickly and easily.
bbPress Using WordPress as its platform, bbPress is open source forum software focused on speed and security, meaning you don't have to worry about slow loading pages or the risk of being hacked. The streamlined software is also lightweight and efficient for better use of space and bandwidth. bbPress enjoys many similar customisation elements to WordPress so you can develop and install themes and plugins (e.g. for ratings, video and private forums) to customise your forums.
OpenAds OpenAds gives you the tools you need to make the most from online advertising. With OpenAds you will be able to manage sophisticated advertising programs and stay in control of all the advertising on your websites. You can also give your advertisers their own control panel where they can monitor the performance of their advertising.
Elgg Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, giving you the tools to create your own fully-featured social networks and applications. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

Other one click install software we offer include:

	Nucleus: The building blocks you need to create a web presence. Whether you want to create a personal blog, a family page, or an online business site, Nucleus CMS can help you achieve your goals.
	Geeklog: Allows you to create your own virtual community area, complete with user administration, story posting, messaging, comments, polls, calendar, weblinks, and more.
	SugarCRM: Lets a business keep track of its relationships with its customers. Users can manage customer accounts, contacts, sales leads, calls, meetings etc. A dashboard showing the most successful leads, the sales pipeline, and the month-by-month outcomes for opportunities in the pipeline can be displayed.
	MediaWiki: A collaborative technology for organising information on websites. Work with others to maintain information. For example if you run a business you can share information with your colleagues at the same time as documenting it for yourself.
	Mambo: fully featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications.
	CMS made simple: Helps experienced web developers and designers to create sites of power and beauty in a fraction of the normal time.

Business Trip - Wales

Well after some busy past few weeks and a few new clients coming on board with DTS Internet Solutions we are happy with progress, clients are over the moon with current work we are producing and the work they are receiving from it!  So we have decided to take a small business break away to Wales where we will be relaxing but most importantly still working.  Whilst away we hope to approach new clients and see if we can spread the word of DTS down south.  We also hope to take some nice landscape shots so watch this space for future posts!

The office will be closed for 8 Days and Re open Monday 22nd August.. Emails will still be answered as we hope to get some form of internet spot or find an internet cafe we can access them on.

Portfolio - DTS Internet Solutions

After months of work and promoting ourselves we have finally found some time to put together a few of our clients we have done so far, we chose 5 websites we have done since March and put little case studies together for them.  We will add more when we finish current work loads but till then, enjoy!

http://dtsinternetsolutions.co.uk/portfolio.html

Potts Locksmith - SEO Update

We did our weekly check up on one of our clients Search Engine Optimisation statistics and have noticed that as of the past few days he has now got first page rankings for the search term "Emergency Locksmith Darlington" and also second page ranking for "Locksmith Darlington".  Our client is happy  with recent work done to his website and now we have managed to get him on the first page he is over the moon!

www.pottslocksmiths.co.uk