Low Cost Names www.lowcostnames.co.uk Reviews

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I normally didn't have any problems with LCN for several years, i just used them for domain registering, that is until now.

I have just noticed that LCN have started charging in EUROs, this is probably due to the fact that the pound has been falling in recent months dramatically. But did LCN bother to annouce this? No. For years, all my invoices were in pounds but now they are being issued in Euros without no notification whatsoever.

What does this mean for me? It means extra cost as their Payment Provider in now charging in Euros, so if you use your normal UK Credit Card, once you get your Card Statement, you will notice your Card Company has also charged you an exchange fee. This is why they didn't announce this. Their website implies they are a UK company, so I can't understand why they won't let me pay in the currency of this country. If they are not a UK company, then why can't I enter my VAT number to be exempt from VAT?!!

Another thing, their Bulk Rates for multiple domain names may seem very attractive, but it isn't, there is small print, or should I say, "there isn't even small print!" On their website they clearly state levels of discounts depending on the number of domains you have, i.e "20+domains", "50+domains" etc. However, when I informed them I had "50+domains" and wanted the discount shown for this, they told me NO. Then then said i 'misinterpreted' this as for this you need '50+ domains' of the SAME domain type. i.e 50+ .co.uk's or 50+.com's etc. !!

But is DOESN'T say this anywhere. I informed them, that it doesn't state this anywhere so I couldn't 'misinterpreted' this. You can check this on their website yourself.

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I had signed up to LowCostNames (LCN)'s dynamic hosting plans after having a new website built.Following the launch of my new site on LCN ' s servers, I emailed all my clients. About a quarter, if not a third, of all emails: mainly BT, AOL, Hotmail and others (approx 300 emails in total) bounced back and could not be delivered.On advice, I immediately changed hosts!Having later on enquired about LCN, I found out that LCN hosting is used by spammers, hence LCN's servers are black listed and the e ...

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"Low Cost Names" dont appear to have a 24/7 helpline, and yet I assume that their clients would need this from time to time. Our email is down for the second time in 4 weeks. I assume that they are carrying out routine maintenance and have 'forgotten' to inform their customers.
I have just renewed with them. I think I will be taking my business elsewhere unless things improve dramatically i.e. both my website and e-mail function 24/7 365 or 366 in a leap year, days a week - this is what I pay fo ...

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I tried to change the domain's name servers via their control panel. The change remained "in progress" for several days so I contacted support. Support took a couple of days to respond and said it had failed because I had entered IP addresses instead of server names. They could do the change manually if I sent them my security details. I called up and said I would like to be in a position to update my name servers via the control panel so they backed out the change and I then put in the server n ...