123-reg Launches Free Hosting Promotion For Domain Name Transfers

May 10, 2007; 02:43 AM
123-reg, the UK's largest domain name registrar, announced it is now offering a year's free hosting worth £57 for all customers that transfer their domain name to www.123-reg.co.uk. Customers also get £80 of free advertising vouchers from MSN and Google to help give their web presence a boost.

As part of the new deal, 123-reg is also giving customers free images and discount from iStockphoto, a £5 Firebox voucher, 30-days of DVD rental from LoveFilm, 30-days of tunes from Napster and a free online T-shirt store worth £40 from Spreadshirt.com.

Customers moving over to 123-reg receive the Starter Pro hosting package, which offers 500Mb of web space, 5000Mb of data transfer per month, 35 POP3 mailboxes, unlimited email forwarding and webmail for additional email access. It's perfect for individuals such as hobbyists, bloggers or small businesses and provides great tools such as CGI, online file-sharing manager, ftp access and Webalizer web statistics to keep webmasters updated with their site's performance.

"Hundreds of thousands of people own a domain name, but many lie dormant or are just used to forward emails to their webmail account," says Mark Beyer, sales and marketing director at 123-reg. "We're changing all this by giving migrating customers the tools to make the most of their website address to create their own website for fun or business. As well as a year's free web hosting worth £57, we're giving away £80 of advertising vouchers to enable them to really shout about their website."

All 123-reg websites are hosted in high security datacenters in the UK, using highly reliable infrastructure, giving customers peace of mind that their websites are resilient.

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