Fasthosts email hosting

I've noticed with Fasthosts email hosting that if you use them for DNS hosting and choose not to have a website, Fasthosts automatically turn the website for your domain name into a page of affiliate links (which presumably makes them money). Something to consider if you are using Fasthosts for email only.

I'm sure that lots of less reputable companies do this. Having used Fasthosts in the past I wouldn't go back if you paid me.

In reply to a post by kasg:

I'm sure that lots of less reputable companies do this. Having used Fasthosts in the past I wouldn't go back if you paid me.

I noticed this behaviour on Fasthosts because it is not how 123-reg does things. I.e. if you disable web forwarding and delete @ and www A records on 123-reg, they do not show a page of affiliate links on customer domains purely used for email.

My workaround was to set up web forwarding on Fasthosts and direct web traffic to an non-existent domain (hacky, but it works).