I am in the middle of setting up a website and have discovered an administrative problem with my chosen domain ... I thought I had transferred it from one registrar to another but it seems while the 'old' registrar claims to have transferred it the 'new' registrar claims they never received it and the Whois record doesn't help much as most of the data is redacted. I am pursuing this but while doing so I just thought it might be worthwhile to devote a little time to seeking out a new domain and designing a logo and 'multiuse' banner for it.
The website will offer selective email services, more information will obviously be made available by PM to a shortlist of chosen designers. To help me create a shortlist I would ask that you respond describing your thoughts on domain selection, particularly advantages/disadvantages of the different domain extensions and the use or not of 'special characters' such as hyphens or underscores. Please also give a ball park for your fee to research the domain name and design a logo and multiuse banner (by which i mean a general banner with space to insert various marketing phrases). Note: Please ignore the budget shown, this is simple the amount of credit currently in my account with PPH. I have played PPH's game of must give a budget amount ... they don't seem to realise that some projects need a rough idea of cost without the restriction of imposing a budget!
