Domains
Register a new domain, or move one you already own. UK and global extensions, DNS you can edit yourself, and first-year and renewal prices shown together before you commit.
Search for a new domain or bring an existing one to Little Moo.
How a domain reaches you
The same three stages whether the name is new or already registered somewhere else.
Search the name above and we check it against the extensions we register. Nothing about availability or price is claimed until the search runs, and the price you see at checkout is the price you pay.
A .co.uk says the business is British. A .com says it is not only British. Buying both is common, and forwarding one to the other costs nothing extra.
See the extensions we registerSearch for the name, choose the extension, and it is registered to you. If you host with us we point it at your site and issue the certificate. If you do not, we give you the records you need.
Remove the transfer lock at your current registrar and get the authorisation code, and we handle the rest. A transfer does not interrupt a website or email that is already working, as long as the records move with it, and we check that they do.
A domain registered through us is registered in your name. You can edit the DNS, point it wherever you like, and take it elsewhere if you ever want to. We will not hold a transfer hostage.
DNS management covers A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT and SRV records, with sensible defaults already in place so nothing breaks the day it is registered.
Some registries, including .uk, publish or restrict registrant data under their own rules, so ID protection is offered only on the extensions that support it.
Ask about a domainExtensions
Registration, transfer and renewal prices are quoted live at search against current registry pricing, and the first-year and renewal figures are shown together at checkout. We do not print a headline price here that might not be the one you are charged.
After you have the name
Registering the name is the first step. These are the two things most businesses do next, and both are cheaper than fixing them later.
Most businesses register the .co.uk and the .com, and often a common misspelling as well. It costs very little each year and it stops somebody else owning the address your customers type by mistake.
A domain is an email address as well as a web address. Hawthorne puts professional mailboxes on your own name and keeps them separate from your website hosting, so a change to one does not disturb the other.
Before you register anything
Everything else about a website can be redone. The address is the thing that ends up on the van, the invoice, the shop front and every email you send, so it is worth an afternoon of thinking rather than the first thing that is free.
Short is better than clever. Say it out loud and see whether the other person has to ask how it is spelled. If you trade mainly in the UK, a .co.uk reads as a UK business, and holding the matching .uk alongside it costs little and saves an argument later.
Yes. The check is live against the registry, and nothing is claimed about a name until it runs.
Yes. You only need to point two or three records at us, and we will tell you exactly which ones.
You do. It is registered to you, and you can transfer it away at any time.
It is how .uk domains move between registrars. Instead of an authorisation code, your current registrar sets the tag to ours and the domain follows.
You get reminders before the date. After expiry most extensions have a grace period, and then a redemption period where recovery costs more. Tell us quickly and we will say exactly where the domain stands.
If you know which plan you want, take it. If you would rather talk it through first, tell us what the website has to do.
