Following the withdrawal of the UK from the EU on 29th March 2019, UK based individuals and organisations will no longer be eligible to have a .eu domain. If you currently have or are considering purchasing a .eu domain, the information provided here will explain how this affects you and what you need to do. […]
Category: Domain And DNS
How to Flush the Local DNS Cache in Linux Server
Follow the below mentioned steps to clear the local DNS cache in Linux Server: 1. Open your terminal to use the command line. 2. Log in as root user using the su command: [email protected]:~$ su Password: (type your root user password here) [email protected]: 3. Restart the name service cache daemon (NSCD): [email protected]: /etc/init.d/nscd restart Note: […]
Auto-Renew Only Domains
Some domain names are auto-renew only, this means they cannot be manually renewed. To renew these domains Auto-renewal must be turned on prior to the “Auto-renew by date”, if auto-renew is turned off then once the auto-renew deadline has been reached the domain will expire despite how much time remains on the registration and you will […]
.UK Anniversary Promotional Offer!
We’re celebrating the first anniversary of the .uk domain with a great deal on all new .uk registrations. From 10 June until 31 July, you can get your own .uk domain for just £1 + VAT! Here’s how it works: – Register your .uk domain with us between 08:00 BST 10 Jun 2015 and 12:00 […]
How to Transfer a Domain Name with least downtime?
Sign up with your new web host and do not cancel you existing old hosting account. Make sure that you don’t let them know that you will be cancelling. After you have the details for the new existing account and your website is working from the old host server. Now you can start the migration […]
How to Update Contact Information or Whois Details for Domains with WHUK?
Having your domains contact information updated is vital. Frequent emails are sent to customers who have their domains registered with us, and we expect you to update the registrant, administrator, technical, and billing contact information for your domain(s). Some would also refer to this as the Whois information, it’s the same. Well, if you don’t […]
.UK Domain Names – Reservation Procedures
On the 10 June 2014, the shorter, smarter and snappier .uk domain name launched, which brought with it the biggest major change to the UK namespace in many years. Now, for the first time, you can get the domain name you’ve always wanted on the top-level “.uk” extension directly. In order to protect owners of […]
Setup Private Name Servers for Reseller Hosting
What are private name servers ? Private name servers are the name servers which includes your own domain name. Private name servers would be ns1.yourdomain.com and ns2.yourdomain.com. Usually when you sign up for web hosting you use your hosts name servers. What are my private name servers IP’s ? Each reseller server has it’s own […]
What are subdomains?
Define Subdomains. A subdomain is just as it sounds, a sub or second-level of a domain. It’s a great way to create memorable web addresses for various areas of your site. For example, your site is www.mysite.com. A subdomain would be music.mysite.com, and another would be funstuff.mysite.com. WebHosting UK provides hosting for main domain name […]
Host main domain and sub-domain with two different host
Q. Can the main domain and sub-domain be hosted with two different host or on two different servers ? Ans: You can host your main domain and sub-domain on two different servers or with two different web hosting companies. For Example: If you are hosting the main domain in US and if you wish to […]