From domains and hosting to email, VPS and security, Transcom has been keeping British businesses online since 1993. As a Nominet-accredited registrar we register and manage your domains, host your sites on fast NVMe infrastructure, and protect your inbox with our own MxGuard antispam — all backed by 24/7 UK support. Power users get more: DNS filtering, domain dropcatching, security forensics, and TDesk, our own hosting control panel that runs the whole lot on our servers or yours.
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Leased TAG Owner Access lets you catch dropping Nominet domains under your own IPS TAG, cutting the capital cost of building a catching operation while settling registrations with Nominet directly at the preferential registrar rate. £89/month. The idea: Rather than buy the engine outright or pay per-catch fees, you lease access and run catches against your own Nominet TAG. Caught domains land directly on your TAG, and you pay Nominet their registrar rate — keeping your costs low and your domains under your own control from the moment they're caught. What's included: - Catch dropping Nominet domains under your own IPS TAG. - Settle registrations directly with Nominet at the preferential registrar rate. - Web-based front end to manage your domains and submissions. - The full current catching engine — multi-socket, non-blocking EPP, time-release aware. - We install and configure the software for you. Who it's for: - Nominet registrars who hold their own TAG and want a proven catching engine without building one. - Anyone wanting to cut the capital cost of dropcatching while retaining direct Nominet settlement. You bring the TAG; we provide and run the catching engine. The software is a complete rewrite for Nominet's time-release process, configured and maintained for you, so you can focus on choosing which domains to chase.
SmartDNS unlocks 400+ geo-restricted streaming services worldwide by transparently routing your DNS queries through UK servers — making streaming services believe you're in a different region, instantly, with zero speed loss. £3.79 per month, no contract. Faster than a VPN: SmartDNS works at the DNS layer — there's no VPN tunnel, no speed overhead and no app to install. You change two DNS addresses and you're done. Unlike a VPN, SmartDNS only routes the DNS lookup; your actual streaming data travels directly from the streaming server to your device at full speed, with no tunnelling or encryption overhead. That's why it has zero impact on streaming quality. What you get: - Unlock 400+ services — Netflix US, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, DAZN, Sky Go and hundreds more, regardless of where you are. - Full-speed streaming with no buffering penalty from tunnelling. - Works on Smart TVs and every device — Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV, consoles, phones, tablets, laptops and routers. - Change your apparent location — appear to be in the UK, US, Germany, Japan, Australia and more, switched instantly via your DNS settings. - No logs, no data — we don't log your browsing, store query history or share any data. - Whole-network coverage — set it on your router and every device in your home is covered, with no per-device setup. - Setup in seconds — two DNS addresses, no software, no certificates, no VPN clients. - No contract — month-to-month billing, cancel any time, full UK support included. How it works: When you access a geo-restricted site, your device first does a DNS lookup to translate the domain into an IP address. SmartDNS intercepts only those DNS queries for geo-sensitive domains and returns responses that route the connection through our UK proxy infrastructure. Using SNI (Server Name Indication) proxy technology, the streaming service sees a valid connection originating from the correct region — without any VPN tunnel, encryption overhead or IP masking of your main connection. Built for reliability: The service runs on a dual UK server architecture with automatic failover — your subscription gives you access to both primary and secondary servers simultaneously. We continuously update our routing tables as streaming services change their geo-detection methods, so your DNS addresses never change but the backend adapts to keep services working. Supported platforms: - Windows, macOS, Linux - Android and iOS - Samsung, LG and Sony Smart TVs - Apple TV, Chromecast, Fire TV - PlayStation and Xbox - Home routers (set once, covers all devices) - DHCP server configuration Trusted by thousands: 8,500+ active subscribers, 400+ streaming services, two UK redundant servers, and 24/7 UK support from real engineers. Pair SmartDNS with our Deep Packet Filter to block adverts, malware and tracking at the same time.
MxGuard Smarthost is an outbound mail relay: route your server's outgoing mail through MxGuard's reputable UK and EU infrastructure so your messages actually arrive, instead of being silently rejected or spam-foldered by the big mailbox providers. A standalone bolt-on you can add to any domain that needs it. What a smarthost is: A smarthost is a trusted relay that sends your mail on your behalf. Rather than your own mail server trying to deliver directly to Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo, it hands each message to MxGuard over an authenticated TLS connection. We relay it out from clean, well-established IP addresses that already have sending reputation — so the receiving side trusts it and delivers to the inbox. Why your outbound mail might not be arriving: - Poor IP reputation — if Spamhaus, Barracuda or Microsoft SNDS list your IP (or its neighbourhood), Gmail quietly spam-folders and Microsoft outright rejects. - Blocked port 25 — most consumer and many business ISPs block outbound port 25, so your server can't talk to the world directly at all. - Dynamic or shared IP — residential, shared-hosting or NAT-pool IPs are treated as low-trust by default. - Missing PTR, SPF or DKIM — without proper reverse DNS, aligned SPF and a DKIM signature, modern receivers treat your mail as spam. How it works: Your mail server hands outbound mail to smtp.mxguard.uk over an authenticated, encrypted connection (port 587 with STARTTLS). We scan it lightly, optionally DKIM-sign it, rate-limit it, and relay it out over the same reputable UK and EU IPs used to deliver scanned inbound mail. Configuration takes about five minutes; after that your mail server sends exactly as it always has, with MxGuard sitting transparently in the middle. Setup in three steps: - Enable outbound relay for the domain in the dashboard and pick your auth mode. - Point your mail server's smarthost / relayhost / "send-via host" at smtp.mxguard.uk:587 with the generated credentials. - Done — outbound mail flows through MxGuard immediately, logged in your dashboard. Two ways to authenticate: - SMTP authentication (SASL) — a unique username and password per domain; works from any IP, can be rotated freely, and constrains the sender domain so no one can spoof others. Recommended. - IP allowlist — give us your static sending IP(s) and we trust the source with no credentials. Simplest config for fixed-IP datacentre servers. Light-touch handling — the right tools for outbound: - ClamAV virus scanning on every attachment, so a compromised account can't blast malware out under your name. - Rate limiting at 2,000 messages/day per account by default — if you exceed it we contact you rather than surprise-bill. - Optional DKIM signing on request (most customers already sign at their own server). - Full logging — every outbound message appears in your dashboard tagged outbound, showing who sent what, when, to whom, and whether it was accepted. - We deliberately do not run the inbound AI spam classifier on your outbound mail — those models are trained to judge mail sent to you, not by you, and applying them backwards would false-positive your legitimate business mail. Reliable by design: Active-active high availability across both gateways — mx1 (UK) and mx2 (EU) both accept submissions. If one node is down, your server's connection simply succeeds on the other, with no manual failover. Who it's for: Self-hosted mail servers and small-ISP setups suffering deliverability problems. If you're on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace you almost certainly don't need it — those already send from reputable IPs. When you enable smarthost we give you the exact SPF include (include:_spf.mxguard.uk) to authorise our IPs for your domain. Billed monthly per account, cancel any time — disabling it simply reverts the domain to direct outbound with no other config changes. Included free during your MxGuard trial.
The HA-8G is a KVM virtual private server with 8 GB RAM, 3 vCPU and 100 GB NVMe of fast NVMe storage, on unlimited bandwidth. Dedicated KVM resources, full root access and instant setup — £24.00 per month with no contract. Specification: - 8 GB dedicated RAM - 3 vCPU (dedicated KVM resources) - 100 GB NVMe NVMe storage - Unlimited bandwidth - IPv4 and IPv6 included Ideal for databases and multi-service stacks. Every tier runs on true KVM virtualisation, so the RAM, CPU and disk are dedicated to your server — not shared or oversold like container-based hosting. Platform features: - KVM virtualisation with genuinely dedicated resources - Full root access — install anything, configure freely - Choice of Linux distributions, plus Windows Server 2025 - Bring your own ISO — install any OS image you need - IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity - NoVNC web console for out-of-band access - Built-in firewall management - Free backups included Reliability and management: - DDoS protection included as standard - UK-hosted infrastructure - Instant setup — your server is provisioned and online in minutes - Self-service control: reinstall, reboot, console and firewall all from your panel - No contract — month-to-month, cancel any time All resources are dedicated to your VPS under KVM, giving you predictable performance for production workloads, with full root so you control the entire stack.
The Legacy Engine is a one-time purchase of the Transcom dropcatch software outright — your own licensed copy of the engine to install and run on your own Linux server, catching dropping domains from any registrar that uses the EPP / DAC XML process. £445 one-time. What the software does: The engine catches dropping domain names from registrars using the EPP / DAC XML process — around 80 countries operate one. The configuration file comes pre-configured with Nominet parameters, making it ready to use straight away for any Nominet registrar. Once you own it, there are no monthly fees — you run it on your own infrastructure under your own TAG. Modern time-release engine: The current software is a complete rewrite for Nominet's time-release drop process (introduced September 2022), while remaining compatible with the older DAC/EPP method. Key features: - Multiple non-blocking EPP sockets — all scripts run multi-socket and non-blocking. - A proprietary algorithm that streams EPP writes in blocks for tighter timing. - Seven chronological result points to help you judge the best moment to send EPP creates. - Latency computation displayed on the login screen. - Post-check registration — register a name if the catch timing missed the slot but the domain became available. How you run it: - Requires PHP 7.4.x with the server set to UTC/Zulu time (all drop times are in Zulu). - run.php — single domain, non-blocking mode. - robin.php — round-robin mode, multiple domains read from a flatfile list, fully automated. - Several additional utilities are provided, plus nightly Nominet droplist downloads. Own it outright: Install via SSH on your own Linux server using your EPP password, Account ID and licence key. Existing SSH-software owners can upgrade to the new engine. A one-time purchase with no recurring fees — settle caught domains with Nominet directly at your own registrar rate. Leased options are also available if you'd prefer not to buy.
