123-Reg Domain Registration Review & Summary

123-reg is the largest domain provider in the UK, with over two million domain names registered. It is part of one of the largest web hosting services in the UK, Webfusion Ltd., which gives you confidence you're dealing with experts who are in the business for the long term.

123-reg offers some of the cheapest domain names around, and gives you a free personalized web page with every domain name you register or transfer to 123-reg. There are numerous professional templates to choose from to make creating your website a breeze, and every template can be customized to suit your particular application.

The control panel is simple to use, and the interface is intuitive and makes managing your domains simple. 123-reg prides itself in being accessible to people with a wide range of technical know-how, from the clueless beginner to the tech-savvy IT expert, and even a raw beginner can use the control panel to submit their site to search engines, set up subdomains, organize mailboxes, mail and web forwarding, and set up web hosting. 

All domain packages come with free email and web forwarding, and you can also forward your emails to Internet mail clients such as Hotmail, Google and Yahoo.

123-reg hands you full DNS control with all registered domains, and you can change your DNS settings personally. Any domain you register with 123 can be pointed to any website you like. If you have more than one domain, you can forward visitors to all your domains to just one site if you wish. One advantage of this is you can have several URLs, including variations or mis-spellings of your domain name, so you capture the maximum number of visitors. It also allows you to register a special domain for a specific campaign.

Parking your domain? 123-parking, the site’s domain parking service will pay you to park by placing targeted advertising and sponsored search results on your parked domain and paying you commission for every click. Setting up domain parking is simple and free, and takes only a few minutes. You can park your domain for as long as you like, and you control how your parked domain will look. If it has high volumes of traffic 123-parking will even design a customized template just for you, free of charge.

123-reg’s head office is in Uxbridge, UK, and their brand new state-of-the-art data center is eco-friendly, being powered by ultra-modern low-energy systems. Experts are on hand 24/7, every day of the year to guide you if you need help.