123 v's UK Reg

[Nosmo King]

I've just tried to register a Domain at 123.

At the final confirmation screen I got the message "Unlucky - The domain youwanttoreg.co.uk has only just been registered by someone else!". A quick whois showed it still free.

An hour or so later - still free but the same stupid message from 123.

So I regged it with UK Reg. :mrgreen:

My question is - how do others rate UK Reg in comparison to 123?

 

[fred]

I've just tried to register a Domain at 123.

At the final confirmation screen I got the message "Unlucky - The domain youwanttoreg.co.uk has only just been registered by someone else!". A quick whois showed it still free.

An hour or so later - still free but the same stupid message from 123.

So I regged it with UK Reg. :mrgreen:

My question is - how do others rate UK Reg in comparison to 123?

Before we got our own Nominet membership and Tag, we used UKReg. Never really had any problems with them, apart from them auto renewing domains months before the renewal date. That meant we had to bill our customers for renewals even further in advance than that.

 

[ratboy]

Had that too with 123-reg the other day, as i can't register with my tag at work.

Then tried with 1and1 and it took them 14 hours to register the domain, by which time i was home and did it myself.

Crap service from both big boys!!

 

[wwwdomain.name]

Nismo

Maybe Paul is worth a punt:

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/welcome-acorndomains-co-uk/6882-welcome-weycrest-co-uk.html

He'll reg/set nameservers and push all in one go...

 

[seanc]

i used to use UKREG, but found that when your trying to register
a domain that had just dropped, ukreg still said it was registered,
so i moved to 123-REG.. :-(

i'd use weycrest, but i we use websense web monitoring here,
and it thinks weycrest is a sex site ?!?!


Reason:
The Websense category "Sex" is filtered.
URL: http://www.weycrest.co.uk/

 

[grantw]

I've used ukreg for years and never had a problem. In light of the masses of problems people have been posting on here regarding 123reg I can't believe that anyone from this forum is still using them! Or maybe that saving of a few pence is more important than getting the domain you want and actually being able to administer it from the contro panel

Grant

 

[ratboy]

In light of the masses of problems people have been posting on here regarding 123reg I can't believe that anyone from this forum is still using them!

Dead right Grant.

 

[Nigel]

We've used ukreg for many years and have been very pleased with the service and prices (buying in bulk).

The only real problem has been trying to register domains that have dropped that were previously registered thro' ukreg. I think that is what happened to seanc. UKreg's system still shows it as active on their system and you need to phone them to get it freed up. They really need to delete from their system domains that have expired as there must be many hundreds of thousands of domains where this problem is now occuring.

We have now got used to the early renewal system. It actually works quite well in practice. We have built lists of domains expiring (on a daily basis) and you need to make a decision to renew or lapse 30 days before renewal. They helpfully send a number of renewal emails with a lapse link from 60 days prior to renewal so there is at least a month to lapse poor domains.

ukreg get a thumbs up from us, but they'd get a double thumbs up if they deleted all those domains from their system that have now expired.

 

[Jeewhizz]

The only real problem has been trying to register domains that have dropped that were previously registered thro' ukreg. I think that is what happened to seanc. UKreg's system still shows it as active on their system and you need to phone them to get it freed up.

Same happens at 123

 

[zee]

123 us now

Have used 123reg for 4+ years because I liked ease of use, I also had heart intrenet who give great service,but I find navigating awkward,,,now after waiting for 6days to have a .com reg with 123reg...WHICH I PAID FOR....I finaly reg with heart internet in a few minutes....should have moved to them years ago....now have 500 domains to shift from 123reg....and try to obtain refund for unreg domain....z

 

[denchomsky]

123 used to be ok, i reg'd over 150 names with them and no problems whatsoever, but in the last few months of using them i had nothing but trouble.

It all seemed to go ti*s up around the beginning of April during the .eu registrations, since then every time i tried to reg a name they cocked it up!

I gave them the benefit of the doubt because i had so many names there, but recently i switched.

There are so many complaints about them just on this forum, i cant see them staying in business much longer at this rate.

 

[revsorg]

The story took a new turn for me this morning.

I thought I would try 123-reg again, so I ordered morethanajob.co.uk with them and got confirmation that they had registered it for me, then I sat and watched the WHOIS for a while and it slowly dawned on me that their system hadn't worked.

So I went to ukreg.com and successfully registered it there.

Now all I need is a refund from 123-reg.

Mental note... must stop giving 123-reg more last chances...

 

[Nosmo King]

How do UK Reg compare for speed of registration? - that is from the time the 'order now' button is hit to the time a Nominet Whois shows it as yours. Is it me - the last few I've regged at 123 seemed to take a few minutes where as it used to be a few seconds.