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for freeparking.co.uk

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  • 38 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    opinion-maker

    5 Stars Are you a dot com wannabe 09/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages IP forwarding sub domain capability

    Disadvantages Disadvantages steer clear of the centralnic nominet names

    Freeparking is one of those online companies which does not incur VAT, so for the consumer are 17.5% cheaper. They have two sites, freeparking.co.uk which has pricing in GBP and domain-parking.net which has pricing in USD...take your pick! Both sites are the same apart from the pricing, infact they are so similar you have to look twice! Basically they are a domain name registration service. - PRICING .co.uk/.org.uk are £9.99 all inclusive and .com's/.org/.net are £29.98 quoted at the standard 2 year period. Very competitive if you want a 'usable' domain name. There are other domain name ... more
  • 38 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mikeydred

    5 Stars GIVE THE WORLD YOUR NAME 09/05/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap and Efficient way of getting your own domain

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Nowt

    This lot provide an absolutely excellent domain name registration service, not only that their after sales service is excellent, and not only that the site and control panel, once you’ve registered is a doddle to use as well. There are a couple of other in depth opinions that detail the site it it’s minutiae, so I’ll just concentrate on the things that make this very attractive, especially to someone who doesn’t want a lot of technical hassle. Firstly you want your own web address…. Go to the site (there’s a link off my site which is www.singy.co.uk), and ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    rogerstark

    1 Star Freeparking deleted my website beacuse of their mistake 31/01/2012

    Advantages Advantages Cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It is your responsibility to fix their mistakes

    The problem is that I received 8 reminders to pay but they all arrived on the same day January 26th between 13:47 and 13:54. I then received 4 invoices on 27th Januarybetween 06:45 and 06:46. My website was then delete. The link to renew was incorrect and following the links to get to the correct page was not straight forward.Their response "I am so very sorry - there was a problem with the auto processor on theshared host server your site is on, and the reminders were sent out late.I am afraid the domain's website has been removed from the systems andthere is nothing we can do about it.If you ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    digitalburn

    5 Stars An excellent service 06/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A fast, efficient, professional service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    While not offering web hosting as such, www.freeparking.co.uk offers one of the best domain registration services I have come across. The prices are reasonably standard, starting from £9.99 for a .co.uk domain name for two years, up to around £29.99 for a .com for two years. Many different TLDs (Top Level Domains) are available, and you can usually choose the length of your registration, depending on which TLD you are going for. The site also offers an excellent domain name search facility - inputing up to three words will search all combinations of them (including joined up and joined by ... more
  • 5 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Frisbee78

    3 Stars Both good and bad... 05/11/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Web forwarding, ease of registration, cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Automated support response, poor email forwarding service, difficulty in coordinating contacts and admin names.

    The freeparking.co.uk site is great for registering cheap domain names easily. It is not so good at email forwarding (emails often bounce back) and when you put in a support request you get an automated response from various FAQ-bots (you'll get to know them by name!) which is irrelevant to the question you asked. You then have to write back saying please read my question and then they MIGHT respond with a vaguely relevant answer but not always answering it in full. I have often given up on a support request with them after about 6 email exchanges when I just know they are not going to respond ... more
  • 71 of 75 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    demonfishbxoer

    1 Star Works ok - but lousy customer service - they conned me out of £90 06/11/2009

    Advantages Advantages works ok, you can register your domains fairly easily, cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages support is crap, website is dated, I got ripped off, company is not a UK company!

    I was with Freeparking for over 5 years - it worked ok, never had any major technical issues and when I did they were usually resolved pretty quickly. The website is a bit dated and clunky, and they are clearly not a UK company. This all went fine, until I renewed my main domain name for an additional 9 years (thought I'd make it easy) and things went horribly wrong. The domain didn't renew properly and freekparking still charged me the £90 renewal fee. I requested my money back through the support system and was assured that this would be done through the 'finance department'. This went on ... more
  • 1 of 2 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Pictish

    1 Star Incompetent Service from Freeparking 16/05/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Good user maintenance portal

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They sold my domain 3 years before expiry

    I was happy with freeparking until a recent experience where their incompetence was responsible for the loss of my domain. When it came to renew my .info domain I paid for the 5 year option (£41). Just over two years later I find no email coming through and I find someone else now owns my domain! Now we find the downside of freeparking, the only way to contact them is via the support call system. So I raise a support call asking if someone has spoofed them into transferring my domain. Results is the reply "Support call closed - Unfortunately the domain name was put back on the market for ... more
  • 10 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    firefox5000

    1 Star I don't recommend it to anyone 17/11/2005
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Cheap

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Everything else

    It's cheap and easy and quick to register a domain with freeparking but that's where the story ends. Raise a support request and the answer that comes back has nothing to do with your problem and it seems that they are being obtuse with you on purpose. I have asked direct and specific questions time and time again and they answer some but not all of the questions and what they do answer is not exactly what you asked but rather some overall answer that you knew in the first place. They use SpamCop without your permission on all mail that goes through their system so if you register yourdoman ... more
  • 6 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    SusannaMariucci

    1 Star Email TOTALLY unreliable. 18/04/2009
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Reasonably priced and easy to set up

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Impossible to rely on them for e-mail; if you want to leave them they just ignore your request.

    I got a .eu domain from Freeparking and stayed with them for almost two years. Setting up was easy and the price fair, but that is the end of that. From the outset I noticed that e-mails could be delayed (both outgoing and incoming), but I thought that was a glitch. At the time I was using a different e-mail address and hadn't transferred all my traffic to Freeparking yet, so I wasn't paying too much attention to what was going on. However in the end I did make the switch, but to my dismay I noticed that the problems with sending AND receiving e-mails continued on and off. I kept sending ... more
  • 30 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    1 Star Quick review of freeparking.co.uk by littlebutterflygb 21/09/2008
    Very expensive for .co.uk and like another Reviewer here, were completely incompetant when it came to automatically renewing my domain. It says is T&C that domain renewal is done automatically if a CC is left on file - except they THEN tell you they don't do that anymore when you wonder why you've lost your domain name Also, was charged a whopping fee of £13 for renewing domain name THREE HOURS LATE on their system. The fact that - because they are in the US! - the email was received by me at 5:30 in the morning made not a jot ... more
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