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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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.
Veritus is a UK-hosted, cloud-based fraud-scoring engine built for the moment that matters: signup. When someone submits a registration form on your site, Veritus enriches what they typed against multiple third-party data sources, runs the combined signals through a LightGBM machine-learning model, and returns a verdict in under 100ms — so you can stop fake signups before they ever create an account. Add it in minutes, two ways: a drop-in JavaScript widget (no backend work) or a REST API. Every check runs seven enrichment signals — email validity & age, phone validity & line type, address validation, IP & geolocation, breach exposure, device & behaviour, and cross-field consistency — before the model scores it 0–100. You set the block and review thresholds, and the model self-learns from your confirmed real and fraud outcomes. No per-user fees and no hidden enrichment surcharges. Starter — for growing SaaS & small e-commerce: - 10,000 checks / month - Everything in Free - Customer-specific model layer - Webhooks (5 endpoints) - 5 domains, unlimited forms - 90-day verdict history - Allow/block rules + review queue - Email support Overage: £3.50 per 1,000 extra checks.
Add live chat to your website in one line — completely free. The TDesk Chat Widget puts a friendly chat bubble on your site so visitors can message you and get a reply in real time. It's the simplest way to answer questions on the spot and turn browsers into customers. Why you'll like it: - 100% free — no cost, ever, for live human chat. - No card needed — no payment details, no trial countdown, no catch. - Works on any website — WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace or plain HTML. If you can paste one line of code, you're ready. - Installs in seconds — copy one script line, drop it into your page, and the chat bubble appears. - Reply from one place — every conversation lands in your TDesk inbox; you and your team answer live from any device. - Never miss a visitor — get an email the moment someone starts a chat. - Make it yours — set your own greeting and brand colour to match your site. - Capture leads — collect a name and email so you can follow up later. - Fast and lightweight — loads asynchronously and won't slow your pages down. How it works: - Get the widget (it's free) and copy your one-line snippet. - Paste it into your website, before the closing body tag. - When a visitor chats, you're notified and reply live from TDesk — they see your message instantly. Coming soon: - Optional AI auto-answering that replies from your own knowledge base 24/7 — a paid upgrade you can switch on whenever you want. Add it now — it's free, takes a minute, and works everywhere.
TDesk Starter — Get online today. Everything you need for personal projects and a handful of client sites. Same panel, same features and same server quality as Pro — just sized right for getting started. £8/month. This tier includes: - Disk: 10 GB - Domains: 3 - Mailboxes: 15 - Databases: 2 - Subdomains: 10 - Domain aliases: 5 - Email aliases: 10 About TDesk: TDesk is a UK-hosted cloud hosting control panel that does something Plesk and cPanel don't — it bundles the panel, the server, the storage and the bandwidth into a single monthly price, then automates the work of running them. There's no VPS to rent separately, no registrar account to hold elsewhere, no WHMCS licence to buy for billing. You add a domain and the whole hosting chain provisions itself; everything below is included on every tier, with the tier setting only your quotas. A panel that provisions itself: Most panels hand you a checklist. TDesk runs the chain for you. Enter a domain and, in under ten seconds, it deploys a full DNS zone across three nameservers, generates and publishes a DKIM keypair, wires mailboxes with SPF and DMARC, attaches AI spam filtering, deploys the web vhost under an isolated Linux user, and issues a live Let's Encrypt certificate — with a pre-flight DNS check so a rate-limit is never burned on a zone that isn't pointing at us yet. The domain is live on HTTPS, sending authenticated mail and protected from spam, before it can receive a single message. Each step is idempotent and retryable, so provisioning is reliable rather than a sequence of things that can half-finish. Real per-customer isolation: Every customer is a genuine UNIX user on the box. PHP runs as that user, and files are mode 0640 owned by them — no shared "nobody" account, no reading across accounts. This is proper operating-system-level separation, not a soft convention, which matters the moment you host more than your own sites. AI mail security, built in and free: Inbound mail on every domain passes through MxGuard, Transcom's own AI gateway. A LightGBM classifier (0.988 AUC) sits inside a full DNSBL / URIBL / SPF / DKIM / DMARC / ARC pipeline, backed by ClamAV virus scanning, quarantine and per-domain sender rules. It's attached automatically during provisioning and costs nothing extra — spam filtering that would be a separate paid product elsewhere is simply part of the platform. Fraud screening on every signup, free: Veritus risk-scores new signups before an account goes live, using email, phone, country and IP signals to catch throwaway and high-risk registrations automatically. It protects both you and any customers you go on to host — particularly valuable if you resell. Hosting done properly across the board: Web hosting runs on nginx with PHP-FPM, MySQL and PostgreSQL, created and managed from the panel with browser-based admin. Each domain can run in one of four modes — Website, Forwarding, No hosting or Shop. DNS is served from three authoritative nameservers (a primary plus two geo-distributed secondaries) with full record editing. SSL is free Let's Encrypt, auto-renewed. As a Nominet-accredited registrar, TDesk registers .uk domains directly — and adds domain parking with branded for-sale and holding pages, plus dropcatch to catch expiring .uk / .co.uk domains on a pay-on-success basis. A real shop, not a bolt-on: The ecommerce module is a full storefront — ten themes, cart, checkout, Stripe and PayPal, and built-in Shop SEO — so a hosted domain can become a working online shop without a separate platform. Backups, files and security: Backups are scheduled, encrypted and stored off-site with 30-day retention and one-click restore of any file, mailbox, database or full site. The browser-based file manager supports drag-drop upload and per-customer SFTP. Security is layered in — fail2ban, a WAF, firewall and two-factor authentication. Run it our way or yours: Use our UK cloud with the server included, or point TDesk at your own clean AlmaLinux 9 box — connect it once with a bootstrap token and the same provisioning chain runs on your hardware, same panel, same price, no per-server licence fee. Every tier can resell: create customers with their own logins and quotas and bill them however you like; TDesk just runs the platform. UK-hosted and GDPR-aligned, built and operated by Transcom — running UK hosting since 1993. No contract: pay monthly, cancel any time, unused days refunded. Ring up and someone who actually knows hosting answers.
The Leased Dedicated Server is a dedicated catching resource for serious and high-volume dropcatching — your own server running the Transcom dropcatch engine, installed and configured for you, with the resources to pursue premium and hard-to-catch names. £149/month. What you get: - A dedicated server resource allocated to your catching, not shared. - The full Transcom dropcatch engine installed and configured for you. - Multi-core capacity to run many non-blocking EPP sockets in parallel. - Positioned for low round-trip time to the Nominet backend for competitive drops. - Web-based front end to manage domains and monitor results. Built for premium names: Single-mode and premium catches need more resources than a shared catch — short and three-character names, high-value domains and heavily contested drops all benefit from a dedicated engine firing on its own server. Leasing gives you that horsepower on a monthly basis instead of a large upfront purchase. We install and configure everything: The current engine is a complete rewrite for Nominet's time-release process (PHP 7.4, UTC/Zulu timing), using a proprietary algorithm that streams EPP writes in blocks across multiple non-blocking sockets. We set it all up for you, so the server arrives ready to catch. Ideal for registrars and domainers running serious catching volume, or anyone targeting premium names where dedicated resources make the difference between a catch and a miss.
