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123 Reg is a leading UK domain registrar with over 25 years of experience helping businesses succeed online. We help small businesses and entrepreneurs get started and grow with domains, web hosting, professional email and website tools, backed by expert support and advice without the jargon. With more than 2 million domains registered, we make it easier to build, manage and grow your business online.

Part of the challenge of buying a domain name is juggling alternative spellings and domain extensions to find a decent one. But imagine if none were taken and you could pick any domain...

We imagine the people running the online branch of world famous toy shop Hamleys were feeling a little red-faced last week. Just as the whole world’s thoughts were turning to Christmas shopping and...

Big changes are afoot in the world of domain names. By the middle of 2010, the first domains in non-Latin scripts should be up and running. This will make domain names written in...

When it comes to search engines in 2009, most of the buzz has been around ‘Twitter Search’. Twitter allows you to search for what people are talking about in ‘real time’. Both Google...

As a website owner, the chances are that you’ve thought long and hard about how to drive traffic to your website from Google. You can do this through either Search Engine Optimisation or...

Interesting little domain name related story in The Guardian last week. The domain name extension .yu, the country code for the now-disintegrated former Yugoslavia, was finally retired last Wednesday. This extension has been...

Working in the online industry, it’s easy to forget how new this internet thing is. Five years ago, the amount of online shopping was a fraction of what it is today. Ten years...

This week we’re taking a look at Twitter. Yesterday we gave six reasons it’s a complete waste of time. Today, it’s the other side of the coin: six reasons you really should be...