Nominet dot UK Price Increase – Act Now to Save Money

Nominet, the Registry for .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk domains has announced effective 1st March 2106 that it will be increasing the cost of domains to all .UK domain registrars by 50% and changing the standard registration period to 1 year.

Other .uk domains (gov.uk, ac.uk etc) are not controlled by Nominet and not changing price or periods at this time


To lock in your pricing before the industry-wide price rises, we recommend that you renew/extend your domains by 29th February.


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What is Changing ?

  • The registry-registrar wholesale price is increasing 50%

    This means that it is necessary for Astutium to increase the price we charge for all .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk domain name registrations and renewals inline with the increased costs to us.
  • Pricing has been standardised so that multi-year registrations are no longer at a discount

    This means Astutium will change the default registration and renewal period on .uk domains to 1 year (from the 2 years we use now), as there is no longer a (registry provided) multi-year discount – however Astutium will continue to provide our clients with discounted rates for multi-year registrations and renewals.
  • Nominet are changing their Terms and Conditions for the registration/use of the .UK family of domain extensions.

    The new terms and conditions are available at
    Nominet Terms and Conditions of Domain Name Registration.pdf
  • Following the Nominet pahse-out of the automaton and migration to an EPP based registry, Astutium will be adding functionality to the Client Portal to allow for .uk contact address / phone / email updates online
  • Nominet will be running promotions around .UK for Accredited Registrars (of which Astutium are one) – details will be posted to the blog, website and in the newsletter as they are announced/available
  • To make incoming .uk Domain Transfers simpler for clients all our Nominet TAGs have been consolidated into the single “ASTUTIUM” TAG rather than being specific to the type of service(s) you have

What is the New Price ?



Our new pricing will be 4.99 GBP (ex VAT) per year for .UK, .CO.UK, ORG.UK and .ME.UK with discounts for multi-year registrations/renewals

Astutium are committed to providing the best value domain registration, renewal and transfer pricing for all TLDs (extensions). At GBP 4.99+vat/year we continue to be the cheapest UK Accredited Domain Registrar – 40% cheaper than 123-Reg/Webfusion, GoDaddy, 1&1/Schlund, NamesCo and many others who have all announced increases to 6.99 per year

Why are Nominet increasing the prices ?

The current Nominet board has decided that a price increase is necessary due to increased spend on other projects combined with intense competition between the all the new domain extensions

Russell Haworth, Nominet CEO said:

We’re (Nominet) committed to running a first class service for .UK registrants, including our renowned customer service, and we’re doing more than ever before to ensure the .UK space is a safe and trusted home for all.
But costs have risen considerably since we last changed the price, and we need to compete in a promotion-driven industry.

Whilst the price increase is significant in %age terms, it is the first increase to .uk pricing since we became a Nominet member in 1999, and .co.uk/.org.uk/.me.uk remains one of the cheapest and easiest to register ccTLDs available today.

The Nominet board have refused to commit to any fixed-period for this pricing structure, so .uk registrants should be aware that it is highly likely we will see regular future price increases in line with GTLDs who increase prices on average every 2 years

What do Astutium Advise ?

Our advice is to avoid the price increase if you can by taking action immediately, before the new pricing takes effect on 1st March 2016…

  • Register any new .co.uk org.uk .me.uk or .uk domains you need now at

    Domain Name Registrations
  • Renew any existing .UK domains you already have with Astutium for between 2 and 9 years #1 today through the Client Portal at

    Domain Name Renewals
  • Claiming any .UK domain you are interested in and have rights to as a .co.uk registrant immediately using our dedicated “claim your .uk” page in the Client Portal at
    Claim Your dotUK Domain Name
  • Transfer any .uk domain names you have registered elsewhere to Astutium (for free #2) to take advantage of our cheaper renewal pricing than other registrars at
    Bulk Domain Transfers

Notes:
#1 the final expiry date after renewal must be less than 10 years away
#2 .uk domain transfers are free of any charges by Astutium, and are free to do at all reputable .uk registrars. There are some who have started asking you to pay to move your domain away which you will either need to pay to the losing registrar, or you can contact Nominet on 01865 33 22 11 who will update the TAG on all your domains for a single 10+VAT (GBP 12) fee

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2016/02/nominet-dot-uk-price-increase-act-now-to-save-money/

How to Change all Users CPanel Theme to Paper Lantern

Despite ‘x’ and it’s followup ‘x3’ being the most popular themes for cpanel (as well as being the most widely extended themes in use by hosting companies) the authors have decided to concentrate on the ‘paper lantern’ style for all future features.

A shame, and we will really miss the X-style (and our highly customised and feature enhanced versions for mail, forwarding, wordpress and ecommerce hosting) 🙁

One of the steps in deprecating the X3 themes has been to (optionally) make the default for new accounts the PL style – this helps for new clients, but doesn’t help transition existing users.

Without warning, the latest version of cpanel/whm simply no longer works correctly without paper-lantern, but no option was provided to auto-update hosting accounts – they just stopped working !

It’s not all bad news though, as the fix for your VPS/Dedicated-Server is relatively simple …

cd /var/cpanel/users
perl -p -i -e “s/x3mail/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/x3/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/xmail/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/monsoon/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/xcontroller/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/rvblue/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/rvgreen/paper_lantern/g” *
perl -p -i -e “s/rvred/paper_lantern/g” *

and all existing accounts will now be using paper_lantern when they next login.

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2016/02/how-to-change-all-users-cpanel-theme-to-paper-lantern/

Another 7 newGTLDs Now Available .college .courses .live .men .miami .rent .studio

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/11/another-7-newgtlds-now-available-college-courses-live-men-miami-rent-studio/

WARNING: Domain Registrant Phishing Scam

IMPORTANT NOTICE – Domain Phishing Attacks

You may have heard that a massive phishing attack is ongoing against domain owners.

We have received multiple reports that some of those attacks are claiming to come from Astutium or Astutium-GRS to target our registrants in an attempt to obtain your client portal / registrar access login details, and then steal your domain names.

These fraudulent emails claim that a particular domain name has been suspended and ask users to click a link.

Astutium did NOT send these emails.
The phishers have NOT obtained any of your information from Astutium.

We are asking all Astutium Domain Registrants to be extra vigilant of these fraudulent suspension notices.

In case you or your end users receive an email regarding your domain name:

  • Do not click any links [you should NEVER click links in an email]
  • Do not reply to the email [this only confirms to scammers that you read their junk]
  • Do not call any phone numbers listed within the email [as this is scam call-centre]

The emails look similar to:

Dear Sir/Madam,

The following domain names have been suspended for violation of the Astutium Limited Abuse Policy:

Domain Name: [domain]
Registrar: Astutium Limited
Registrant Name: [name from whois]

Multiple warnings were sent by Astutium Limited Spam and Abuse Department to give you an opportunity to address the complaints we have received.

We did not receive a reply from you to these email warnings so we then attempted to contact you via telephone.

We had no choice but to suspend your domain name when you did not respond to our attempts to contact you.

Click here and download [one scammer url is http://pewnafirma.pl/abuse_report.php?domain] a copy of complaints we have received.

Please contact us for additional information regarding this notification.

Sincerely,
Astutium Limited
Spam and Abuse Department
Abuse Department Hotline: 480-836-1395 [this is NOT our telephone number]

If you have any questions or concerns about this issue, don’t hesitate to contact our domains support team by ticket at www.astutium.com

To complain about the phishing scammers using your details for criminal intent, contact ICANN https://forms.icann.org/en/contact

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/10/warning-domain-registrant-phishing-scam/

Another 4 newGTLDs Now Available .amsterdam .fans .fyi .mba

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 and 2016 - to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.
New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:
#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/09/another-4-newgtlds-now-available-amsterdam-fans-fyi-mba/

Another 4 newGTLDs Now Available .coupons .movie .online .soccer

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/08/another-4-newgtlds-now-available-coupons-movie-online-soccer/

Another 6 newGTLDs Now Available .dog .hockey .lol .run .taxi .theater

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/08/another-6-newgtlds-now-available-dog-hockey-lol-run-taxi-theater/

Another 11 newGTLDs Now Available .accountant .download .jewelry .lat .loan .love .racing .show .team .tech .win

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/08/another-11-newgtlds-now-available-accountant-download-jewelry-lat-loan-love-racing-show-team-tech-win/

Another 15 newGTLDs Now Available .bank .cafe .date .express .faith .gold .golf .irish .markets .news .plus .review .site .sucks .tours

Starting from today additional Domain Names are able to be registered in targeted/specific newGTLDs (Global Top Level Domains) under General Availability.

Today sees the general availability of the newGTLDs:

with more than 1000 more coming out during 2014/5’s weekly newGTLD roll-out, if you’ve not decided on your newGTLD .brand roadmap contact us for options today.

These domains are now available to register at Astutium Domain Checker.

Anyone can register names in these new gTLDS on a first-come, first-served basis

* Restricted TLD

Additional domains will be rolled out weekly throughout 2015 – to keep up to date with the launch schedules subscribe to our New Global Top Level Domain Mailing List.

New GTLD Mailing List
Email: Name:

#NewGTLDs on Twitter

 

Domain:

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/07/another-15-newgtlds-now-available-bank-cafe-date-express-faith-gold-golf-irish-markets-news-plus-review-site-sucks-tours/

Astutium Ltd Acquires US Web Host PeachyHost.com

6th July 2105: Newark, DE – for immediate release

Astutium Ltd, the only hosting provider with over 10 years of continuous uptime, has today announced the successful acquisition of PeachyHost.com (a boutique US Web Host)

As a result of the agreement, PeachyHost exits the industry following the completed transfers of all the domain, hosting, server, vps and cloud server customers to Astutium’s US operation.

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Both Astutium and PeachyHost are privately held companies. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

The acquisition immediately provides all clients access to the centralised client portal Astutium:Unified, and enables use any of the companies services, including domain registration in over 1000 extensions plus the extensive range of shared and dedicated server solutions.

Existing email services and website hosting remain in US datacentres, but clients can now select to use of any of the Astutium network of hosting locations around the world.

Shelagh Shaw, Business Manager Astutium said:

Many of those coming through the PeachyHost acquisition are providing essential services to their local communities and doing some amazing things online, so I’m extremely proud to welcome them to the family. At Astutium we are always looking for ways aid clients of all sizes to make the most of the internets’ potential and several of the acquired clients are already planning expanded services.

This acquisition will further strengthen the Astutium brand of managed hosting services in the critical US market, where the company is seeing significant organic growth of their reliable and scalable hosting solutions, backed by the latest technology and inhouse customer support team.

PeachyHost is the first North American acquisition by Astutium so far in 2015 (5th since 2012) but wont be our last – the M&A team have more already in the pipeline

, continues Shaw

Launched in 2008, PeachyHost specialised in provision of professional web hosting and server solutions for local business, primarily in the medical, education, arts and charity markets.

Rob Golding, head of the Astutium Mergers & Acquisitions Team added

A big thank you specifically goes to Keith Coleman, one of the founders of PeachyHost. He built a strong hosting clientbase of successful organisations over the years and we’ve worked closely during this transition. I’m already looking forward to working on some future projects together.

About Astutium

Astutium offers domain name, email/web hosting, virtualised or dedicated servers, cloud servers, datacentre colocation and related services to SMEs and individuals worldwide, with clients in over 160 countries.

One of the few ICANN accredited registrars, Astutium are heavily involved in domain policy, internet governance, internet exchange management, government forums and industry think-tanks.

To learn more please visit www.astutium.com

References:
http://peachyhost.com/

Permanent link to this article: https://blog.astutium.com/2015/07/astutium-ltd-acquires-us-web-host-peachyhost-com/

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