Our main business is web hosting, so we don’t seek to make a huge profit on domain pricing. If you buy a domain from PMHosts you’ll enjoy the service and consider hosting your website with us.

There’s a couple of different ways:

UK domains (all domains that end .uk)

1. Update the IPS Tag to STACK at the current host.

2. Complete the transfer from the ‘Transfer a Domain’ option in your PMHosts account.

gTLD domains (ending in .com, .net, .org and most other domains)

1. Ask your current domain provider for the domain name authorisation code.

2. Log in to your account at PMHosts and click ‘Transfer a Domain’.

3. Enter the domain name and click ‘Search’.

4. Add the domain to your basket and complete checkout.

5. An email will be sent to the email address listed as the admin contact.

6. Follow the link in this email and approve the transfer by entering the authorisation code.

7. Once authorised, the transfer will complete automatically within 5 days.

Our support team is always there to help you or read our support article on ‘How to transfer a domain name’ for more information.

PMHosts IPS tag is STACK. To transfer .uk domains you’ll need to enter this at your current host to process the transfer.

For some domain names we’ll add a free year to the renewal date when the domain is transferred to PMHosts. To check if your domain names are eligible contact our Sales Team and they’ll let you know.

.uk domains are transferred instantly, so they’ll appear in your PMHostsi account straight away.

.com, .net, .org and most other domains take 5-7 days to transfer. Your website and emails remain live during this time – this is just the time it takes the registry to process the transfer.

No, you cannot buy a domain name permanently. The registration of domain names works on yearly contracts. You can pay upfront for up to 10 years to have your TLD secured.

We work on an autorenewal basis, that means you don’t have to worry about your domains expiring.

We will send you a reminder to renew your domain name one month prior to the expiry date. You can renew the domain registration manually from the renewal section in your account at any time.

If your domain name registration has expired, the domain will enter the process of being deleted from the registry and you will lose control over the domain name. When the process is complete, it will be freely available for anyone to register.

For most TLDs (like .com, .uk, .org etc.) we offer a 30 day grace period to renew the registration. After this there is a 30 day redemption period in which you can still renew the registration, but there is an extra fee for this process.

There are some TLDs which are regulated in a way that don’t allow for a grace and/or redemption period (e.g. .io) and are directly available for anyone to register when expired.

There are some regulations you have to follow when registering your TLD. We have summarized them in our support article.

A domain name on its own does not class as intellectual property in the UK. The actual content of a website will be protected by copyright laws.

Unless you are trading as a domain name provider, your domain name will not form part of your taxable profit. If you make profit from selling domains as a business, then you will be expected to pay your local tax laws.