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Risposta breve: names.co.uk is a solid UK registrar with real phone support and a UK data centre. It’s let down by first-month teaser pricing and domain renewals customers keep calling excessive. Attraverso 6,049 reviews it holds 4.3 fuori da 5. That average hides a split: 70.7% give it five stars, 20.2% dagliene uno.
This review uses the company’s published prices, its terms of business, the UK company register and the full public review record. A differenza delle recensioni pesanti di affiliazione, we show renewal prices beside promotional ones and quote candid Reddit threads. We also separate invited reviews from ones people wrote unprompted. That split turns out to be the most useful number here.
Valutazione complessiva: names.co.uk scores 4.3/5 attraverso 6,049 recensioni. Strengths are named UK support agents, un' 50,000 square foot Thames Valley data centre, and a flat-priced control panel range. Common complaints involve domain renewal costs, a transfer-out fee, and domains suspended over verification emails that never arrive. It suits UK small businesses that want a phone number.
Ultimo aggiornamento: settembre 2026. Dati su prezzi e recensioni verificati.
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| Nome | Nomi.it |
| Recensioni totali | 5290 |
| Punteggio medio | 3.9 |
| Sito web | https://www.nomi.co.uk/ |
| Indirizzo | Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/anames.co.uk , Casa Acton, Parco Perdiswell, Worcester, Worcester, Regno Unito |
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Numero di recensioni
media. Punteggio della recensione
Servizio Clienti
Caratteristiche e servizi
names.co.uk sells domains, ospitando, email and website building as one bundle. It’s part of team.blue, the European group that also owns the sister brand LCN.com. names.co.uk’s operating company was renamed from Namesco Limited to Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited on 12 agosto 2024. Your invoices now carry a name the brand itself never traded under.
Here’s a dated change worth knowing before you read older reviews. names.co.uk retired its Starter, Professionale, Premium and Platinum hosting range on 15 novembre 2023. Its own blog announced the replacements that day: Principiante, Enthusiast, Pro and Pro-XL. Any review still quoting those older plan names describes products the company stopped selling nearly three years ago.
Tipi di hosting offerti
- Web hosting – four shared tiers from 25GB to 150GB
- Hosting WordPress – three tiers with staging (a copy of your site for testing changes safely)
- WePanel Hosting – three tiers on the company’s own control panel, con gli strumenti dei rivenditori
- Server dedicati gestiti – three configurations, priced by quote only
- VPS – listed in the navigation, with no specifications or prices published
- E-mail, Microsoft 365, SSL certificates and a website builder
Caratteristiche principali evidenziate dai clienti
Reviewers rarely praise the specifications. They praise the people. Recent five-star reviews name individual agents and describe problems solved on one call. What else gets mentioned? The free first-year domain, which is why many customers arrive. Backup depth also comes up, a partire dal 1 retained daily copy on the entry plan to 28 on the top tier.
Posizioni dei data center
All hosting runs from the UK. The company describes “un' 50,000 square foot facility in the heart of the Thames Valley”, con 450 racks across four data halls. Its own network links that site to points of presence in Slough and London.
For a UK audience that means low latency and UK jurisdiction. The infrastructure page names no ISO certification or tier rating, though the hosting page calls the facility “Tier3+”.
Aspettative di prestazione
No independent benchmark data turned up during this research, so treat performance claims as unverified. The platform runs NVMe SSDs (solid-state storage using a faster connection than older SATA drives), NetApp storage, e vernice, Redis and OpCache caching.
One specification deserves a check against your own code. The hosting page lists PHP 8.2, 8.1 e 8.0. PHP 8.2 reaches the end of its security support in December 2026. If your software already wants PHP 8.3 o più recente, chiedi prima di acquistare.
Esperienza del cliente
The public record is large and unusually polarised. Di 6,049 recensioni, 70.7% sono a cinque stelle e 20.2% sono una stella. Solo 1.7% sit in the middle at three stars. Alcuni 846, all'incirca 14%, were written in the last twelve months, so this record is live.
Now the number that explains the split. We sampled the 180 newest reviews, posted between 18 Giugno e 2 settembre 2026. Il 152 written after a company invitation average 4.77, con 87.5% a cinque stelle. Il 28 written unprompted average 2.71, and fifteen of those are one-star.
So which figure is honest? Entrambi lo sono. The difference is when the reviewer was asked. An invitation usually follows a closed support ticket, so it samples the company on a good day. Nobody sends an invitation after a failed domain transfer.
Ciò che i clienti elogiano
Personale di supporto, per nome, ancora e ancora. Recent five-star titles read like thank-you notes to individuals.
Longevity comes second. Reviewers describe relationships of ten years or more. One recent title simply reads “16yrs Great Customer Service”. L'azienda risponde anche a 100% delle sue recensioni negative, media 1.12 giorni.
Reclami comuni
Domain renewal cost dominates. It isn’t close. Reviewers in June, July and August 2026 describe the same shape: a cheap or free first year, then a bill they consider far above market. One July reviewer wrote that a renewal costing GBP 4.79 in year one now costs GBP 53.39. Several name Cloudflare’s registrar as the comparison, near GBP 8.
The exit fee is the second theme, and it compounds the first. Customers who decide the renewal is too high then find leaving costs GBP 10 plus VAT per domain.
Terzo, and more serious, is a cluster of domain suspensions over registrant verification emails. Reviewers between 12 Giugno e 22 luglio 2026 describe the same failure. A domain gets suspended for an unverified address, il “resend verification” button reports success, and no email arrives. Business websites sat offline for a week.
Fourth is account lockout. Logging in from a different country or IP address triggers a block, and clearing it means reaching support in UK office hours.
Feedback della comunità (Reddit e forum)
Reddit adds detail the review sites don’t, and it stays consistent across seven years.
The transfer-out fee dominates. Un ottobre 2019 thread in r/webdev asked whether the GBP 10 plus VAT charge was even legal. A February 2022 thread in r/webhosting drew a reply from a self-identified names.co.uk support technician confirming it. Un aprile 2023 r/Domains post came from someone who abandoned signup over it.
A practical tip sits inside that 2019 filo. The poster asked for the fee to be waived, quoting ICANN’s rule that a transfer cannot be denied over non-payment. The company waived it. In 2024 another user copied the request and got the same result. If you’re leaving, ask before you pay.
Two more threads matter. In dicembre 2023, r/Domains carried complaints about domains paid for but never delivered. A gennaio 2024, an r/webhosting user found that sites built in the names.co.uk builder can’t be exported. Positive sentiment exists but is quieter, mostly from long-term registrar customers.
Supporta la qualità
Telephone and ticket support run Monday to Friday, 8sono a 5:30pm. Weekends and bank holidays are ticket only, 8am to 4pm. Non c'è chat dal vivo.
Watch for a contradiction. The hosting plan pages say “Our team are available 7 Giorni a settimana” and print a phone number underneath. The support page says weekends are ticket only. One August 2026 reviewer called at 8:15am and was told nobody was in until 9. Parecchi 2026 reviewers also say an AI assistant blocks the route to a human.
When to Use names.co.uk
names.co.uk fits well in specific situations.
Ideale per
UK small businesses that want a phone number: The most consistent theme in the review record is named UK agents solving problems by phone. If downtime costs you money, questo conta.
Anyone who needs UK-only hosting: Everything runs from the Thames Valley facility. For UK visitors and UK data residency rules, that’s a clean answer.
Buyers who want predictable pricing: Choose the WePanel range. It carries no introductory offer, so month one and month thirteen cost the same.
Lo apprezzerai se
- You want domains, ospitando, email and Microsoft 365 on one bill
- You run several small sites, because Pro hosts 25 of them for GBP 18.99/mo
- You value backup depth, because Pro-XL retains 28 daily copies
- Hai bisogno dell'hosting Windows, because WePanel offers Linux or Windows
When NOT to Use names.co.uk
Nessun host è adatto a tutti. Look elsewhere in these cases:
Cerca altrove se
You hold a lot of domains: Standard renewals sit above what at-cost registrars charge, and moving each domain out costs GBP 10 più IVA. A portfolio makes both numbers bite.
Buying a server is the plan: Dedicated servers are quote-only on 2016 e 2019 processori. The VPS line has no specifications at all.
You want a refund if it doesn’t work out: Non è prevista alcuna garanzia di rimborso. Refunds are “discretionary” and each request is “considered on their merits”. You’d be relying on statutory rights, non una promessa.
Bandiere rosse per la tua situazione
- Hai bisogno di supporto telefonico nel fine settimana: Saturdays and Sundays are ticket only, whatever the plan pages imply
- You travel or work abroad: Reviewers report lockouts triggered by a change of country or IP address
- You want a contractual uptime figure: Lo dice il marketing 99.999%, the terms cap liability below 99%
- You’re price-shopping the first year: The offer lasts one month, and month two costs up to fourteen times more
Se si applica uno di questi, vedere la sezione Alternative di seguito.
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk Dal Regno Unito
| Punteggio medio | 4.21 |
| Numero di recensioni | 3539 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'Irlanda
| Punteggio medio | 4.82 |
| Numero di recensioni | 107 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dagli Stati Uniti
| Punteggio medio | 3.49 |
| Numero di recensioni | 61 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Francia
| Punteggio medio | 4.45 |
| Numero di recensioni | 49 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Pakistan
| Punteggio medio | 2.41 |
| Numero di recensioni | 37 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'India
| Punteggio medio | 2.17 |
| Numero di recensioni | 36 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Turchia
| Punteggio medio | 2.89 |
| Numero di recensioni | 35 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Marocco
| Punteggio medio | 2.97 |
| Numero di recensioni | 33 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Spagna
| Punteggio medio | 3.85 |
| Numero di recensioni | 33 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'egitto
| Punteggio medio | 2.50 |
| Numero di recensioni | 26 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'Italia
| Punteggio medio | 4.31 |
| Numero di recensioni | 16 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Germania
| Punteggio medio | 4.62 |
| Numero di recensioni | 16 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Bangladesh
| Punteggio medio | 2.53 |
| Numero di recensioni | 15 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dai Paesi Bassi
| Punteggio medio | 3.23 |
| Numero di recensioni | 14 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'Algeria
| Punteggio medio | 2.79 |
| Numero di recensioni | 14 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk DALL'AUSTRALIA
| Punteggio medio | 3.00 |
| Numero di recensioni | 13 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Sudafrica
| Punteggio medio | 2.77 |
| Numero di recensioni | 13 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Nigeria
| Punteggio medio | 2.36 |
| Numero di recensioni | 11 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dagli Emirati Arabi Uniti
| Punteggio medio | 3.82 |
| Numero di recensioni | 11 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Polonia
| Punteggio medio | 3.75 |
| Numero di recensioni | 8 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'Arabia Saudita
| Punteggio medio | 4.75 |
| Numero di recensioni | 8 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Svezia
| Punteggio medio | 3.00 |
| Numero di recensioni | 8 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Belgio
| Punteggio medio | 4.50 |
| Numero di recensioni | 8 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk da Singapore
| Punteggio medio | 3.43 |
| Numero di recensioni | 7 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Romania
| Punteggio medio | 2.57 |
| Numero di recensioni | 7 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dall'Indonesia
| Punteggio medio | 3.86 |
| Numero di recensioni | 7 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Norvegia
| Punteggio medio | 2.71 |
| Numero di recensioni | 7 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Portogallo
| Punteggio medio | 4.83 |
| Numero di recensioni | 6 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dalla Serbia
| Punteggio medio | 4.33 |
| Numero di recensioni | 6 recensioni |
- Recensioni su Names.co.uk dal Canada
| Punteggio medio | 2.50 |
| Numero di recensioni | 6 recensioni |
names.co.uk Plans and Pricing
All prices below are in GBP and exclude 20% I.V.A., which is how names.co.uk displays them. Add a fifth for the real figure.
⚠️ Avviso rinnovo: The advertised hosting prices last one month, nemmeno un anno. Web Hosting Beginner is GBP 0.99 per il primo mese, then GBP 9.99/mo. That’s a 10.09x jump. Enthusiast goes from GBP 1.00 a GBP 13.99, which is 13.99x. Budget for month two.
Web hosting
Principiante: Sterlina inglese 0.99 primo mese, then GBP 9.99/mo. 25GB, 1 sito web, 1 backup giornaliero, dominio gratuito. No free SSL certificate.
Enthusiast: Sterlina inglese 1.00 primo mese, then GBP 13.99/mo. 50GB, 5 siti web, 7 backup giornalieri, SSL gratuito, Accesso SSH.
professionista: Sterlina inglese 2.00 primo mese, then GBP 18.99/mo. 75GB, 25 siti web, 14 backup giornalieri, auto-patching.
Pro-XL: Sterlina inglese 5.00 primo mese, then GBP 32.99/mo. 150GB, 50 siti web, 28 backup giornalieri, costruttore di siti Web.
Annual billing follows a pattern you can check yourself. Beginner costs GBP 109.89 un anno, exactly eleven times GBP 9.99. The same holds on all ten plans across the three ranges. So a year costs eleven months, un 8.3% Salvataggio, and the offer doesn’t apply to annual terms.
Hosting WordPress
Antipasto: Sterlina inglese 1.00 primo mese, then GBP 9.99/mo (GBP 109.89/yr). 30GB, 14 backup giornalieri, SSL gratuito, 1 test environment.
Professionale: GBP 21.99/mo (GBP 241.89/yr). 100GB, 30 backup giornalieri, 2 ambienti di prova.
premio: GBP 40.99/mo (GBP 450.89/yr). 250GB, 30 backup giornalieri, 3 ambienti di prova.
Here’s the buying mistake to avoid. Web Hosting Beginner and WordPress Hosting Starter both renew at GBP 9.99/mo and both cost GBP 109.89 un anno. For the same money the WordPress plan adds 5GB, 13 more daily backups, free SSL and a staging environment. Running one WordPress site? The plain plan is worse at an identical price.
WePanel Hosting
This range is different, and better in one way. There’s no introductory offer, so the price you see is the price you keep.
Antipasto: GBP 14,99/mese (GBP 164.89/yr). 1 dominio, 50GB, 10 cassette postali, 1 vCPU, 512MB di RAM.
Professionale: GBP 20.99/mo (GBP 230.89/yr). 5 domini, 300GB, 100 cassette postali, Accesso SSH.
premio: GBP 25.99/mo (GBP 285.89/yr). Unlimited domains and space, 2 vCPU, 2048MB di RAM.
WePanel is the company’s own control panel rather than cPanel, the third-party panel most shared hosts use. Compare the tiers carefully, because they don’t line up. WePanel Starter costs GBP 1 a month more than Web Hosting Enthusiast for the same 50GB, and hosts one site not five.
server
Three managed dedicated tiers are listed, all priced by quote, and the specifications are dated. The entry tier runs a 2019 Intel Xeon E-2224, the middle one a 2016 Xeon E5-2640 v4. VPS appears in the menu with no specifications and no price.
If you want a server with a number on it, vedi il nostro UK VPS hosting guide o il nostro UK dedicated server comparison anziché.
Nomi di dominio
Domains are where the review record gets angry, so the numbers matter. First-year price first, then the published standard rate:
- .co.uk: gratuito, then GBP 13.99/yr (Sterlina inglese 16.79 con IVA)
- .UK: Sterlina inglese 3.99, then GBP 13.99/yr
- .con: Sterlina inglese 1.99, then GBP 24.99/yr
- .memorizzare: Sterlina inglese 5.00, then GBP 96.99/yr, a 19.4x increase
- .Tech: Sterlina inglese 5.00, then GBP 77.99/yr, a 15.6x increase
The site’s own footer is clear: these offers are “for the first billing period only, do not apply to renewals”. The problem isn’t disclosure. It’s that a free .co.uk buys a customer who never checks year two.
Costi nascosti da tenere d'occhio
- Transfer out: Sterlina inglese 10 plus VAT to release a .uk domain, elencato come “Tag Release”. Other extensions face a matching fee inside a 60-day window.
- Authenticated SMTP: Sterlina inglese 65.89 a year as an add-on, not included with email hosting.
- Website restore from backup: Sterlina inglese 100. A single mailbox restore is GBP 30.
- Domain redemption: Sterlina inglese 75 to recover a lapsed .com, .netto, .org, .biz or .info.
- SSL on the entry plan: non incluso. Every other tier gets it free.
Verdetto sui prezzi
Are the renewal rates unfair? Non proprio. They’re mid-market for a UK host with UK support. The advertising is the problem. A jump of up to fourteenfold after 30 days is aggressive by any standard, and leaving costs money.
A documentation problem sits underneath it. The general terms name the published price list as the authority for renewal rates. That list carries no row for Beginner, Enthusiast, professionista, Pro-XL or any WordPress plan. It prices the WePanel range under retired names like “Hosting Premium (Limitless)”. The document your contract points to prices nothing on sale.
Un altro punto dati. Sister brand LCN.com, run by the same registered company, sells an identical ladder. La stessa sterlina 0.99, 1, 2 e 5 rise to the same GBP 9.99, 13.99, 18.99 e 32.99. Only the labels change.
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- Numero di siti illimitato
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- processore –
- RAM 512 MB
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- RAM 1 GB
names.co.uk Transparency Score
How upfront is the provider with what a buyer needs to know?
- Informazioni aziendali: Eccellente. Registered name, company number 03913408, VAT number, ICO registration and Worcester address are all published. The team.blue relationship is stated openly, which many group-owned brands hide.
- Trasparenza dei prezzi: Buona, con un foro. Renewal prices sit on the plan cards beside the promotional ones, che batte la maggior parte dei concorrenti. But the terms point to a price list carrying no row for any plan on sale.
- Documentazione tecnica: Buona. The data centre page gives rack counts, generator ratings and power design. Server pricing is the gap: solo citazione, with no VPS specifications.
- Termini e politiche: Limitato. The refund policy is honest but promises nothing. Uptime is where this breaks down: 99.999% on the hosting page, 99.9% on the WordPress page, and a contract that only excludes liability below 99%. That last figure allows about seven hours of downtime a month.
Trasparenza generale: Above average on identity, below average on commitments. You can learn exactly who you’re buying from, and not what you’re promised.
Alternatives to names.co.uk
If names.co.uk doesn’t fit, questi tre coprono le sue lacune.
Per una vera finestra di rimborso: Krystal
This UK host publishes a 60-day money-back guarantee it calls “no-quibble refunds”. Shared plans start at GBP 7/mo with no first-month teaser. That’s the direct answer to a discretionary refund policy.
For Servers With Published Prices: Fasthosts
Fasthosts, also UK-based, lists its VPS range openly: 4 vCPU, 4GB RAM and 120GB NVMe at a GBP 9/mo standard rate. No quote required. Vedi il nostro UK VPS guide per il campo più ampio.
For Domains at Cost: Registratore di Cloudflare
Cloudflare sells domains at wholesale cost with no renewal markup, and charges nothing to transfer a .uk domain away. It’s the alternative reviewers keep naming themselves. It doesn’t sell hosting, so pair it with a host from our Confronto hosting economico nel Regno Unito.
names.co.uk earns 4.3 fuori da 5 attraverso 6,049 recensioni, and it earns that on support rather than value.
La linea di fondo
Buy it for the phone number and the UK data centre. Don’t buy it on the advertised price, which lasts 30 days before rising as much as fourteenfold. The split we measured says it plainly. Invited reviewers average 4.77 and unprompted ones 2.71, so your rating depends on whether anything went wrong.
It suits a UK small business that wants one supplier and one phone number. It’s a poor choice for a domain portfolio, for anyone needing a refund promise, or for anyone buying a server. Want the predictable version? Pick WePanel.
Per ulteriori opzioni, vedi il nostro Guida al web hosting nel Regno Unito, or compare plans in our Hosting WordPress più economico nel Regno Unito riepilogo.
Domande frequenti
Is names.co.uk good for beginners?
sì, con un avvertimento: prezzo. The free first-year domain, daily backups and UK phone support all suit a first website. But beginners are exactly who gets caught when a GBP 0.99 offer becomes GBP 9.99 in month two.
Is names.co.uk worth the price?
At renewal rates it’s mid-market. GBP 13.99/mo for 50GB and five sites is fair for UK support and UK servers. Paying yearly saves 8.3%, because a year costs eleven months.
Di cosa si lamentano di più i clienti??
Domain renewal prices, con un ampio margine. Second is the GBP 10 plus VAT fee to transfer a domain away. Third is a run of 2026 reports of domains suspended over verification emails that never arrived.
How does names.co.uk compare to LCN.com?
They’re the same company. Both trade as Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited. Both sell four tiers at GBP 0.99, 1, 2 e 5, rising to GBP 9.99, 13.99, 18.99 e 32.99. Switching between them saves nothing.
Is names.co.uk good for WordPress?
Its WordPress range is better value than its plain hosting. WordPress Starter and Web Hosting Beginner both cost GBP 9.99/mo, but the WordPress plan adds 5GB, un certificato SSL gratuito, 13 more daily backups and a staging environment. Don’t buy the plain plan for WordPress.
Does names.co.uk offer refunds?
Non è prevista alcuna garanzia di rimborso. The published policy says refunds “are discretionary unless stated otherwise in our terms of business”. Each request is judged on its merits within 10 giorni lavorativi. UK consumer law may still give you a cancellation window, but the company itself promises nothing.
