Register Domains UK

Search for the name in the box at the top of this page. If it is available, select it and continue to checkout in the TK WebHosts portal, where you create an account and pay for the first year. The domain is registered in your name straight away, and you can point it at your website and email from the portal's DNS settings. If it is taken, the search suggests other extensions you can register instead.

Not on their own. Every domain carries a registry fee, so a “free” domain is always paid for by something else. At TK WebHosts a free domain comes with selected web design packages. Be wary of offers that make the first year free and then renew at a much higher price; check the renewal price before you buy.

Choose a registrar that shows the renewal price up front, gives you full DNS control, lets you lock the domain against unauthorised transfers, and lets you move it away without a fight. It also helps to manage domains in the same place as your web hosting and email. TK WebHosts is a UK company that offers all of this in one portal, with .co.uk, .com, .org and other extensions.

Compare what you will pay over several years, not the first-year price. Many registrars advertise a low first year and then renew at two or three times the price. Skip add-ons you do not need, check whether transfers out are charged, and if you are also buying a website, see whether a free domain is included in the package.

Every TK WebHosts price, including the renewal price, is shown in the portal before you buy, so you can see what a domain will cost over several years. Some registrars advertise very low first-year prices that rise sharply at renewal, so compare the renewal price too: that is what you pay every year after.

Yes. Register the domain, then set up email on it with TK WebHosts Professional Business Email, so your email address matches your website. The domain and the mailboxes are billed through the same portal account.

Most extensions, including .com and .co.uk, can be registered for up to 10 years at a time; registries do not allow longer. TK WebHosts lets you choose a multi-year term at checkout, which protects a domain from a missed renewal.

No. A domain is registered for a fixed term and has to be renewed to keep it; nobody can own one outright. To keep a domain for good, turn on auto-renew, keep your payment details up to date, and register for several years at a time.

When a domain expires, the website and email on it stop working. A .com or .co.uk domain then has a 29-day grace period in which you can still renew it at the normal price. After that, getting it back costs a recovery fee, and if it is not recovered it is released for anyone to register.

Yes. You can register a domain on its own and keep it until you are ready to build a website. You can also use it for email without hosting a website at all.

Registrars can only block a transfer for set reasons, such as the domain being registered or transferred in the last 60 days, being locked, or being in a dispute. Ask your current registrar to unlock the domain and send you the authorisation (EPP) code. For a .co.uk domain, ask them to change the IPS tag to ENOM instead. If they still refuse, contact TK WebHosts support and we will take it up with them.

TK WebHosts registers the most-used extensions, including .com, .co.uk, .org, .org.uk, .net, .info and .biz, and country domains such as .de, .fr, .nl, .ie, .us and .com.au. If the extension you want is not listed in the portal, contact support to ask.

A ccTLD (country code top-level domain) is an extension for a country, such as .co.uk for the United Kingdom, .de for Germany or .us for the United States. A ccTLD tells visitors and search engines which country a website serves.

The domain name system (DNS) works like a phone book for the internet. It turns a domain such as google.co.uk into the IP address of the server that hosts it, so people can type a name instead of a number. The DNS records you set in the portal decide where your website and email go.