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123 Reg, the UK's leading domain registrar with over 25 years of experience, is the simple way to succeed online. Based in the UK, we help small businesses and entrepreneurs get domains, web hosting, email, and websites up and running with straightforward tools, no jargon, and expert support — powering more than a million sites across the country.

In July, ICANN (the organisation in overall charge of managing the internet’s domain name system) announced it was going to allow the creation of additional top level domains (TLDs). A top level domain...

Just lately we’ve encountered a few instances of domain name scam emails circulating. A couple of people in the office have received them, and just the other day one of our readers left...

You’d have to be trying really hard to have failed to notice that next Tuesday, people all across the USA will go to the polls to elect their next President. Every detail of...

Links are the holy grail of any website with aspirations of being ranked in the top 20 results on Google, both in terms of quantity and quality. How you go about getting those...

We’ve spotted a couple of domain name stories in the last couple of days, both of which contain some salutory lessons for website owners and anyone who’s ever bought stuff online. GMTV website...

There’s been lots of interesting news in the domain name world recently. We went a bit quiet here last week (sorry about that), so instead of covering each story individually, here’s a summary...

Since we starting writing this blog just under 18 months ago, traffic to this section of 123-reg has been growing steadily each month. Earlier this week I was looking back at some of...

Server and networking company Akamai has released the second of its quarterly reports investigating The State of the Internet. Just like the last edition, it examines security issues (including where attacks on websites...