Due to the fantastic response to our December “25% off Country Specific domains” & January “Get FREE .co.uk domain with any .uk.com, .uk.net, .gb.com & .gb.net” domain offers, Easyspace is happy to announce the re-run of its 25% discount on Country Specific domains for one final month.

This will be the final month of our 25% off Country Specific domains offer, so make sure to take advantage!

Country Specific domain names from CentralNic have proven to be popular with customers because of the familiarity of the .com and .net extension. These domains are second-level domain names, most of which are country specific, with .com extension such as .uk.com, .us.com, .eu.com, .de.com, .cn.com etc.

Additionally, CentralNic domain names are great alternatives for organizations and business that would like to expand their online identity within countries such as European Union, United States, Germany, which require registrant to be a citizen of the country.

Easyspace is currently offering a portfolio of approximately 20 CentralNic domain names, including .eu.com (European Union), .de.com (Germany), .uk.com (United Kingdom), .us.com (United States) and more!

To find out more about this and other offers from Easyspace, visit http://www.easyspace.com/domain_names/special_offers

We are happy to announce a February promotion on .EU domain names by offering a limited number of them at 80% discount, meaning the price has been slashed to just £2.50 per domain! The offer is available on a first-come, first-served basis and is available to all new and current Easyspace customers.

With a limited number of discounted .EUs being made available, we are expecting these domain names to be snapped up very quickly. To get your .EU domain name for just £2.50, simply search for your preferred domain now from our domain names section.

.EU is one of the most sought after domain extensions within European countries. Individuals, companies and organisations based in the European Union are eligible to register .EU domain names. Companies targeting European customers should highly consider securing their online brand with .EU domain extension.

To find out more about this promotion, visit our Domain Special offers page today!

Easyspace is delighted to announce the availability of its Whois Privacy service for new and existing .Me domain name extension customers.

Already available for .Com, .Net, .Org and other Top Level Domain Names through Easyspace, the expansion to also cover .Me domains allows new and current customers to protect the registration details of their .Me domains, preventing access to personal information which would otherwise be made available to any member of the public looking for it.

While common knowledge to those in the industry, it’s not always known by regular domain owners that personal or business details used to register domain names is eventually made public. Name, email address, postal address and telephone number are just some of the bits of information made fully available on the internet through Whois Lookup sites. Domain owners, therefore, have little control over who then reads that information, and equally little control over what those readers then choose to do with it. Unsolicited Mail is to domain owners email addresses is just one of the options.

This is a real situation regardless of who a person registers their domain names with.

Whois Privacy is a service which replaces a domain owners registration details in the public domain with details completely un-related to the owner. As a result, the service prevents personal information from failing into the wrong hands. For only £5.00 per year, per domain, customers can sign up for this service to give themselves the peace of mind that their personal details are safe and not at risk of misuse.

New and existing .Me domain owners can now signup for this service through Easyspace to protect their registration details

A spokesperson for Easyspace commented on the launch of Whois Privacy for .me domain names by saying:

“Our Whois Privacy service was introduced in response to the demand of our valued customers who wish to keep their domain registration details confidential.  By opting to use this service, domain owners can ensure that their details are not made available to the general public, helping them to retain their anonymity.”

“The addition of this service to our .me domains will no doubt strengthen the already growing appeal of these web addresses to businesses and individuals looking to strengthen their online presence.”

Add Whois Privacy to your domains today.

Easyspace  has launched a new feature on its website to allow non-UK visitors to view more accurate pricing for each of its range of products.

In response to a continued high volume of non-UK traffic to the website, Easyspace has launched a currency convertor on the easyspace.com website targeting the two most popular currencies used by the majority of its non-UK visitors – American Dollars (USD) and the Euro (EUR).

By simply selecting the preferred currency using the relevant onsite navigation, users can view equivalent and up-to-date pricing for all products, including Domain Names, Web Hosting and Virtual Servers. Non-UK currencies on site are reset every morning to reflect an accurate equivalent based on a live Exchange Rate feed.

“For a long time now we’ve had visitors to our site from the USA, France, Spain, Ireland and further afield, but those visitors have been left to do the conversions themselves in terms of calculating the equivalent cost for products in their own currencies.” Comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Easyspace.

“While the core of our business still comes from the UK market, there has been an evident growth in interest from non-UK visitors, so improving Usability and Pricing Accuracy was a logical step. We’re continuing to monitor and will look to implement additional currencies should it become a requirement in future.”

The Currency Selector is one of several recent developments by Easyspace targeted at specific customer segments. With the launch of its Vouchers product for those looking for gifts or “cash in the bank”, the re-launch of the Web Design section of its website and Web Design related products to better reflect the growing list of offerings within its Web Design portfolio to the launch of SaaS application plugins for its Shared Web Hosting and Virtual Hosting products, Easyspace has started the year as it means to go on.

Errol continued “We continue to monitor our customer base and take time to reflect on the feedback it provides us. The result is several new features on a variety of products alongside some improved functionality making the whole Easyspace experience even smoother.”

Easyspace has announced the launch of its first high profile domain name offer of 2010 - free .co. uk domains.

Currently available until the end of January 2010, this offer is the latest in a long line of regular monthly domain offers run by the UK based domain names provider to allow customers to expand their domain portfolios at little cost. Other more recent offers have included 10%, 25%, 40% and 50% discounts on some of the most popular domain name extensions on the Internet.

This current offer allows customers access to a free .co.uk domain name when they purchase any .uk.com, .gb.com, .uk.net or .gb.net for a minimum of 2 years from Easyspace.

“The popular TLDs such as .com, .net and .org are becoming harder and harder to find for many businesses, so the next obvious option is to look at Country Specific Domains. We’ve noticed an increase in interest in our Country Specific extensions recently, particularly those such as uk.com and gb.net, so we’re hoping this offer will allow those businesses to benefit from relevant, local domains at reasonable cost.” comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Easyspace.

Easyspace prides itself on being one of the few providers in the UK of such a variety of Country Specific TLDs along with a variety of other domain extensions.

Country Specific Top Level Domain names (such as .uk.com, .gb.com, .uk.net and .gb.net) have long been an accepted alternative to traditional top level domain names, particularly in instances where the preferred top level domain has already been registered. Not only does this Country Specific format of the Top level Domain allow you to include the common .com within the extension, it also allows for localised focus for your business.

Errol continued, “With many of the worlds Search Engines introducing local search results in recent times, there is not such a high focus on acquiring a global domain such as .com, unless you are a truly global company. This has resulted in a many UK based companies looking for UK based domain extensions, if for nothing else, in an attempt to improve their performance in the UK versions of Search Engines.”

Easyspace has announced the launch of One-Click install SaaS Applications for its range of web hosting packages.

Having recently launched similar applications for its range of Virtual Servers, Easyspace has now integrated an easy-to-use interface into its customer control panel allowing customers to install and run over 50 of the Internets most popular SaaS applications through their own web hosting package.

Applications such as Wordpress for blogging, OS Commerce and Cube Cart for eCommerce and Joomla, Drupal and Mambo for Content Management  are just some of the range of applications available to web hosting customers as part of this development.

“We recently launched similar applications for our Virtual Server products, but the larger development has been in creating an easy-to-install application system for our shared web hosting environment.” comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Easyspace.

“SaaS applications such as Wordpress, Joomla and Cube Cart are allowing smaller business to grow more rapidly without the fully customised, and expensive, efforts once required to generate such applications. Our web hosting customers can now install fully functioning Content Management Systems, high end eCommerce solutions and various other applications such as forums, surveys, guest books and image galleries, all with just a few clicks.”

Allowing customers to grow their businesses online without unnecessary spend has been a focal point of the Easyspace web hosting packages for some time. With free email and a free domain names already included in all packages, and a Pic n Mix package allowing customers to choose the specification of their hosting package – and therefore the cost of their package – the new SaaS integration allows customers significantly more opportunity for growth online.

Errol continued “Most hosting companies, like Easyspace, offer high levels of disk space and bandwidth with their web hosting packages. We feel that the real benefit to customers is not in those specifications, but rather it’s in how those hosting packages can help grow a customers business. With access to online shops, content management systems, blogging software and more, there is now really very little a customer cannot do with an Easyspace web hosting package.”

Easyspace has announced a discount of 25% off country-specific addresses from the CentralNic domain registry. This includes the popular uk.com and gb.com, which are often used by companies as a credible alternative to TLDs which have already been taken. 

CentralNic was established in 1995 as an independent global domain name registry. It uses the top level .com, .net and .org structure to offer regional domain names which are particularly useful for users in countries where domain names are difficult to obtain due to restrictive domain regulations. Easyspace are one of 1500 registrars worldwide who offer these domains, which include.uk.com, .eu.com, .de.com, .us.com, .gb.com and .uk.net. 

Customers can manage their domains through an easy to use control panel, which offers admin features such as name server controls and web redirection. 

A company spokesperson commented, “For companies who have already seen their preferred brand or trading domain names snapped up as a TLD, these country specific addresses are a decent alternative. They are also well worth considering for businesses who are looking to protect their brand identity.”

“This offer means that it has never been more affordable to add a country specific TLD to your portfolio. We would, however, remind customers that the offer is only available until the 7th of January so interested parties should place their order as soon as possible, or risk losing out.”

Easyspace has this week launched its 2009 Christmas specials by offering discounts across its entire range of popular Gift Voucher products.

Launched in the last 2 months, the Gift Vouchers range has already grown to be a popular addition to the existing products and services offered by Easyspace. Now, with Christmas just around the corner, Easyspace has discounted all 5 voucher values by 10%, allowing customers to buy at reduced cost as a gift for friends, family or colleagues, or as a way to buy their own new domains and hosting at a reduced cost.

Five values of Gift Voucher are available from Easyspace (£10, £25, £50, £75 and £100) and each can now be bought for 10% less (£9, £22.50, £45, £67.50 and £90), while continuing to hold its original value when it is used towards the purchase of a new product or service. What’s more, Gift Vouchers can be used to purchase any product on Easyspace, from Domain Names to Web Hosting.

“We launched our Gift Voucher range just a couple of months ago in anticipation of the holiday season and, as planned, our 2009 offer for the festive period revolves around that new voucher range. Rather than discounting specific products, we’ve chosen to discount our vouchers, allowing customers to then pass the 10% saving on to any other purchase they make from Easyspace.” comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Easyspace.

“So, whether people are buying as a gift for friends, family or colleagues, or as a way to give themselves a saving on domain names, web hosting or any other product available at Easyspace, they can save a few pounds this Christmas, which is an opportunity most people are looking for given the financial year the country has had.”

This discount pricing comes off the back of a quite a few product and service improvements at Easyspace, most notably the introduction of unlimited bandwidth and Wordpress compatibility with new shared web hosting packages and the One-Click install SaaS products now available with its range of Virtual Servers.

Errol continued, “It’s been a busy and productive year at Easyspace with product and service improvements, including the launch of our popular Gift Vouchers, and we’ve quite a few upgrades and improvements ready to go live early in the next year.”

Easyspace has announced yet another offer, as part of its November discounts on domain names. Until the end of the month, customers will be able to purchase the increasingly popular .biz domain extension with a saving of 40% on the usual price.

This offer is open to all who purchase at least one full-price top level domain, such as a .co.uk or .com and compliments a range of discounts on other domain names. Throughout November, Easyspace are offering a number of discounts, including 25% off .info, .org and .me domains, to help new and existing customers build up their domain portfolios.

.Biz is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) intended for use by businesses. It was created in 2001 to provide an alternative for businesses whose preferred domain name in .com had already been taken. The only stipulation attached to the domains is that they are used for “bona fide business or commercial use.”

A spokesperson for the company commented on this offer by saying:

“.Biz domain names are catchy, memorable and offer a great opportunity for businesses to market their site effectively to potential new audiences. As part of our current domain offers, we are offering domains with this, and a host of other suffixes at significantly reduced prices. We would advise all interested parties to register their .biz domain as soon as possible to avoid losing out.”

Easyspace announced the launch of an extensive library of easy to install SaaS applications for its virtual server range.

Installable via the Plesk Power Pack, available as an addon to the Plesk Control panel, customers will have access to a multitude of Software as a Service applications designed to aid the main areas of business from Inventory Management and HR through to Collaboration and Ecommerce.

Amongst the most well known applications included as part of the Power Pack are Joomla, Wordpress, Magento Ecommerce, Php Bulletin Board, Php Money and Drupal.

“Over 150 SaaS applications are now available to customers through this latest addition to our Virtual Server range, with each application being a potential opportunity for business improvement. At just £4.95 per month, this proves fantastic value for money. Users can easily install robust online stores, chat and blogging software, finance management tools, project management tools and more at a fraction of the cost of doing each individually through other channels” comments Errol Vanderhorst, Managing Director at Easyspace.

SaaS applications are growing ever more popular with consumers and businesses alike and the inclusion of such a wide range of apps directly via hosting providers is only going to increase the awareness, usage and popularity of them.

Errol continued, “In an age where buzz words such as SaaS and Cloud Computing are becoming ever more common, it’s important to make sure potential users have access to tools classified as such. We already offer a Cloud Hosting solution via our Virtual Server packages and the addition of SaaS applications only serves to further bolsters their position amongst the most competitive servers currently available on the market.”

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