Well, the answer is a resounding ‘no’ as far as Freezone’s marketing team is concerned. No sooner have they helped many small businesses enjoy the benefits of our Ultimate web hosting package at half the normal price, they’re now offering 6 months free web hosting on the same package.

It’s actually not a surprise that the Ultimate web hosting package has proved to be a big hit with people looking for UK web hosting. The package is packed full of features – not only do you get 10GB of disk and unlimited bandwidth, you’ll also be able to benefit from 5 databases, unlimited mailboxes, SSL certificate, a Sitebuilder and data back and restore.

And that’s not all. The Ultimate web hosting package also comes with WordPress allowing you to start blogging immediately. (In fact, we use WordPress to write this very blog.)

But it doesn’t end there. Instead of you having to buy domain names, Freezone throw in 5 free domain names. And importantly, provide you the facility to host 5 separate websites under the one single package.

All this and 6 months free! Perhaps not all good things come to an end. At least not as far as UK web hosting is concerned.

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This March saw the 25^th anniversary of dotcom domain name. Since its launch millions of domain names and website have come and gone. The price of registering domains too has dropped from £100’s to under a few pounds.

We thought it might be interesting to look at the 10 most expensive domains and consider whether a domain name could still make you a few pounds!

Surprisingly, it took a little while before people started to think about domain names as something that could bring you real money. In fact, it was as late as 1999 that business.com exchanged hands for $7.5m. And a further 7 years later (2006) that Gary Kremen sold sex.com for around $14m.

And that was surpassed very recently (2009) by insure.com, selling for a staggering $16m. So without further suspense, here are the top 10 most expensive domain names:

1. Insure.com, $16m (2009)
2. Sex.com, $14m (2006)
3. Fund.com, $9.99m (2008)
4. Porn.com, $9.5m (2007)
5. Business.com, $7.5m (1999)
6. Diamond.com, $7.5m (2006)
7. Beer.com, $7m (2004)
8. Israel.com, $5.88m (2004)
9. Casino.com, $5.5m (2003)
10. Toys.com, $5.1m (2009)

Clearly, there is money to be made in domain names. And now with many UK web hosting companies offering domains names from as little as £2.99 (as well as free domain names with web hosting packages) you could try your luck on the cheap.

Back to the top 10 – no.8 seems most interesting. Can you buy country names? Hmmm…please look away now…

…E. N. G. L. A. N. D. DOT. C.O.M.

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