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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Customers express dissatisfaction with various aspects of the business, including contact methods, location, and website functionality. Consumers also report negative experiences with customer service and the overall service provided. The strong consensus among reviewers suggests a widespread issue across these areas. People have reported issues such as unhelpful advisors, calls not being returned, and difficulties in stopping auto-renewals. Others mention problems with email services, including emails being deleted, servers being slow, and difficulties in migrating accounts. Some reviewers feel that the company engages in shady practices, such as increasing prices after sending renewal reminders with a specified price.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sarcastic and rude helper, since they moved to 123reg, its doubled in price and the help is awful, waiting times for help are unacceptable. Withghb the help being what I already know, in a deliberate... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cannot access webmail, message to try again in 10 minutes. All day no access. Check my account, told I have no products. Try the help they get me to change password, and then they tell me they cannot... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Locked out of our account, I assume since the TSO migration. Login says email or password incorrect, password reminder says no account found, try to create an account, says the account already exists.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just tried contacting 123-reg customer support via the live chat. After waiting more than 40 mins I gave up. Their service has become very poor since they removed ticket option. The live chat and phon... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If you require any assistance from 123reg, forget it. Not only are the wait times far to long, once you do get through there is very little help regarding problems. I'm currently in the middle of migr... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Late last year and early this year 123-reg migrated to a new system. After billing twice for two domains that were important to us they successfully lost both and they were re-registered and put up fo... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

my old email inbox got deleted, i messaged them about it to try and recover it, they didn't and now more than 15 days has elapsed they've said it cant be retrieved. I begged them to do it becau... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Useless! Even Basic Things are not working. Not able to Open File Manager in C-panel, Not able to open FTP using filezilla or any another client, Wordpress customise is not working due to memory li... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Company took over our domain name from tsohost and deleted al our MX records in the process, effectively logging us our from our account as we are now unable to receive the verification email. Our bus... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

123 Reg was a good company but has turned it into a completely unhelpful, unstable service! They are constantly going down often with no information posted on their status website, leaving ever... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

These guys need to be reported to Ofcom for this level of service, which should be able to review their license to operate in the UK. This level of service is criminal, and the customer service agents... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Service was always spotty. Final straw was them randomly changing my billing frequency and it shooting up considerably without any notification or permission. I opened a complaint on the 29th May via... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful customer service: I cannot get into my account & need some help but cannot contact 123 Reg. They have a high cost 0345 phone number they do not answer, idiots on X that do not help at all & the... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I stopped receiving any emails to my address hosted at 123-reg for no reason. Webmail did not seem to exist and when viewed on the control panel it was clear it was gone.... some mails still exist... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I would rate it below 1 but not possible. I was forced to move over to 123-reg after tsohost stopped trading. Never faced issues with basics like email. Used webmail, browser email, outlook clie... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The same has happened to me today. My domain name was supposed to be migrated and suddenly my company has zero email and in and out and i cannot get into the account because they will only e... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful awful awful! I was with TSOHOST and with them I had zero issues with hosting and emails. Now that 123reg have taken over I have no emails anymore and their Account recovery people are useless, a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Stopped forwarding emails without notice, so missed a lot of key communications, currently a 51 minute wait time for support. Have to pay additional money for a service which used to be included as... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Exactly the same as others reporting - no emails in or out for over a week with no explanation, seriously affecting my business. I cannot use the 2-step authentication process as the email for the c... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible company. I implore you DO NOT USE 123-Reg They will destroy your business reputation overnight. Took our site down because of an apparent failure to process payment. Then offered it for sale... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

BEWARE OF 123 REG! they have been charging us for over a year for multiple services we tried to cancel over a year ago. They have a clever customer (un)support system that means you have to constant... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I just though i would check back in after my 1 star review i left previously and my word there are now lots of 1 star reviews confirming i am not the only one!! Amazon Web services are a good shout i... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is a real 123 reg customer review unlike all the fake ones on here. I have been using 123 reg on and off for a couple of years - for hosting initially but now only for domain registering a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This Company are extremely unhelpful and make life so difficult. Their advisors do not return calls as promised They have made every step very difficult and even put the phone down on me when I e... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We are having the same problem as everybody else. Domain suspended, reminders sent to wrong email, take 72 hours to respond to any question. Have been without email for 10 days. Customer service are... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling & Dysfunctional Tried to cancel my subscription as they set up my account to AUTO RENEW. Most complex process ever trying to close an account, ignored emails and do not respond to DO NOT REN... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have been migrated from TSOhost and it has been a shambles. Locked me out of my account without warning. Won’t unlock because I can’t provide them with a utility bill in the company name - I work f... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

In the past week, have spoken to their helpline 5 times about my outgoing 123 Reg email accounts not working properly. Every time they suggest a different solution - often involving buying more fr... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Useless lately, they have bought out TSO host. I have an account at TSO host and an account at 123-reg using the same email. Now they have bought out TSO host I cannot login to either accounts and hav... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have used 123-reg for years, with no problems. I took a break from web work and in the meantime someone decided it would be a good idea to remove username login and only accept email login. I have... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Recently registered another domain and now I've come back to configure, login page is not even appearing. Need to be logged in to use the chat. To add insult to injury the status page is either not re... See more

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Really heart broken with the shadey way they deal with reminders and domains that have recently gone out of date. After 1 day I had the anxious experience of paying out£££ for 3 new domains and an... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was with them for 16 years and was never disappointed with the service. However recently been hugely disappointed. One of the helpdesk was helpful but it took me three calls to get someone to help... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

DISGUSTING. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. I have been locked out of my account and I am unable to provide the documents they are asking for as my business is no longer trading. I dealt with customer service... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Felt pressured over phone conversation during which I stated "I don't trust you" and "I feel I have no choice" to "upgrade" to a deluxe hosting package which seems to offer nothing of any significance... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Slow email servers and sour grapes when you get your domain transferred. They delete all your emails instead of allowing you to archive them even though it isn't tied to your domain anymore. Also no r... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I recently registered a domain with 123 reg. Almost immediately I received daily spam calls from them. When you answer the line goes dead. Finally today there was an actual person on the line. They we... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I've been a 123-Reg customer since 2003. No issues for years, domains ticked along, no problem. However, 123-Reg is now an internet relic that should remain firmly in... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute disgraceful customer service! We have been locked out of our account for some reason and trying to get this reactivated is a nightmare. Up to 3 working days apparently. In that time we are... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The 365 Microsoft Business version provided by 123Reg is dysfunctional and instead of getting tiny support from 123Reg, all I am getting is repeat Copy & paste messages to the tickets raised saying it... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sent me a renewal reminder with a specified price in it. When I called to pay before the deadline set in the reminder, they said that the price had been increased by almost 20% even though they had gi... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Less than 1 star. 123-reg asked me to confirm a payment with my bank, my bank, Starling, flagged up that they never ask for confirmation. I’m stuck in the middle….. I’ve been trying to renew a dom... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

**** ROGUE COMPANY - BEWARE **** Do not give this company your money, they will find any excuse to switch off your website on a friday night and guess whate, support is Mon - Fri !! My website has b... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They breach the The Payment Services Regulations 2017 and do not care - claiming that they are not 'UK based' so don't have to comply. They've taken unauthorised payments through a paypal account wh... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Locked out of my account - resetting back up email now not recognized - three days sending details of something i all ready own and pay for only to say they have no record of me - waste of time ringi... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I received an email telling me about the retirement of ports on email where I have a domain and a couple of mailboxes. I found it unclear but changed the ports to see if my service would co... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unethical company. Dreadful online sales tactics & trying every trick in the sales book to upsell their products. Avoid.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Shockingly bad customer service! Agent literally put the phone down on me after querying what the expected timescales for my simple account reset problem to be rectified were. The next agent couldn'... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Support and process is terrible. They turned off the nameservers for accounts migrated from TSO Host without any warning and have not automatically updated our accounts. I have to wait 72hours (week... See more

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Company details

  1. Web Hosting Company
  2. DNS Provider
  3. e-Commerce Solution Provider
  4. Software Company

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It’s easy to take your business online with UK’s #1 registrar. Get products at affordable prices and fantastic support to help you every step of the way.


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  • Blyth Road, UB3 1HA, Hayes, United Kingdom

  • 123reg.com

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Appalling service

I received an email telling me about the retirement of ports on email where I have a domain and a couple of mailboxes. I found it unclear but changed the ports to see if my service would continue to work. It didn't so I swapped them back and had a word with support who opened a ticket to query it. As I was about to close the chat guy said he noted my mailboxes were due for renewal and offered about a £30 reduction in renewal fees if I wanted to do it then. I thought that sounded okay so I'd renew for 12 months. I limited it to that because we've not been too happy with them for a while. Everything has become over complicated and what we got for our money has significantly reduced.
The guy said I'll start the process then. I was expecting to be asked for a debit card but instead a screen came up saying that my wife's account had been deleted. I wasn't happy but was assured that it would all be resolved and with some complicated messing around it appeared to be re-instated. He then went on to do the same with mine which didn't take as long.

On the face of it, things seemed to be okay. I was concerned about my wife's account because it had taken literally months to port her POP3 mail from her old PC to a new one that had Win11 and MS 365 as standard when supplied. That involved a swap to IMAP The 123 perception was that it was Outlook and not 123 causing the problems. My son who knows nothing about Outlook or 123 had a look at the problem and suggested that as 123 were washing their hands of it, she should contact Microsoft. Unbelievably from my standpoint they had an engineer based in the USA working on her PC in two sessions for about six hours. He said it was not Outlook that was the problem. Eventually it was accepted that there was some internal 123 issue causing valid user credentials to be rejected. And it was fixed in her case. After the antics which I'd expected to be a simple financial transaction, her email seemed unaffected.

My email however would not work. There had been no complexity involved but I had acquired the rejection of good credentials problem seen months before. When looking at my account control settings etc, I found that my forwarders had all been deleted in the transfer.

First line support has been good and helpful, but second line has been useless. A reply ticket told me I had been blocked because of multiple failed log ins and then gave me a cut and paste telling me how to get my credentials right. No email for a few days now and still nothing more than the original response.

If I'd not accepted what was offered as a financial transaction I wouldn't be in this mess.
NOTE:
Tried to log in to my account the next day to forward my mail elsewhere to maintain some external essential links but was told that credentials didn't match and to alter password. When I tried I was told the account doesn't exist.

October 24, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Cannot access webmail

Cannot access webmail, message to try again in 10 minutes. All day no access. Check my account, told I have no products. Try the help they get me to change password, and then they tell me they cannot help any further! Eventually email works late at night. This morning not working. Same problem all over again. Do not use this company. I am now going to change company, these are useless, you certainly cannot use them for business far too unreliable

September 26, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Sarcastic and rude helper

Sarcastic and rude helper, since they moved to 123reg, its doubled in price and the help is awful, waiting times for help are unacceptable. Withghb the help being what I already know, in a deliberate attempt to extract more money from me. Used car salesmen of the web-hosting world. Do not join them.

September 22, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A customer for 20+ years? No more.

I've been a 123-Reg customer since 2003.

No issues for years, domains ticked along, no problem.

However, 123-Reg is now an internet relic that should remain firmly in the past.

Recently I wasn't able to login with my existing password.

1) Tried to reset my password, account no longer exists.
2) Tried to register an account, it says "email is already in use".

Great system.

Contacted support who sent my down a rabbit hole of dealing with the account recovery team.

Passport, utility bill sent - still no luck. I had to keep hounding the team as my domain was set to expire in weeks. Replies took days.

Absolutely shocking service.

I even requested an invoice in the interim to at least be able to renew my domain.

Completely ignored. Luckily I had auto-renew on.

The team eventually replied, saying I should have access? No luck.

They said I should contact customer service! I called customer service, who said they can't do anything and to reply again to the accounts team.

Incredibly incompetent, poor service from a previously highly regarded company.

Finally got access - took weeks to be resolved.

Will be moving domains away from this dinosaur of a provider asap.

September 11, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Unethical company

Unethical company. Dreadful online sales tactics & trying every trick in the sales book to upsell their products. Avoid.

May 11, 2025
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Saved my life!

This was going to be a one star review, after by billing lapsed and I didn't realize my server was deleted!

Huge issue, 123 Reg claimed there was nothing to be done but they carried on trying and lo and behold they got my server back up and running!

Despite the long wait times the staff are always as helpful as possible and pleasant to speak to.

I was of course emotional and angry and they were very very calm and helped in what ever way possible.

I want to thank everyone involved with my case!

September 4, 2025
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

great experience

easy set up, easy to navigate the website the only thing i dislike is i had to try to reach out to the customer support more than 2 times for them to answer

August 28, 2024
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Terrible Customer Service

Locked out of my account - resetting back up email now not recognized - three days sending details of something i all ready own and pay for only to say they have no record of me - waste of time ringing -

August 25, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

DO I TRUST 123-reg?

Less than 1 star. 123-reg asked me to confirm a payment with my bank, my bank, Starling, flagged up that they never ask for confirmation.
I’m stuck in the middle….. I’ve been trying to renew a domain for over a week, I can’t do it online, tried many, many, many times and I get a warning from 123-reg that they cannot process my payment, yet the card is correct, I have money in the bank.
It all started because I wanted to extend my ownership of a domain I own a domain
2 can b 1 on a .com because I’m selling it on GoDaddy who own 123-reg. Then all the trouble started!
Between the two of them I wonder if they’ll be waiting to snap it up for peanuts after 3 years

August 25, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

DISGUSTING

DISGUSTING. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.

I have been locked out of my account and I am unable to provide the documents they are asking for as my business is no longer trading. I dealt with customer service which was extremely poor, when I asked the name of the person I was dealing with, they just hung up on me.

August 22, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If you require any assistance from…

If you require any assistance from 123reg, forget it. Not only are the wait times far to long, once you do get through there is very little help regarding problems. I'm currently in the middle of migrating my site and im experiencing problems that they have no interest in sorting.

August 19, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Absolute disgraceful customer service

Absolute disgraceful customer service! We have been locked out of our account for some reason and trying to get this reactivated is a nightmare. Up to 3 working days apparently. In that time we are receiving no orders and our company will probably not survive due to their incompetency

August 19, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Awful customer service

Awful customer service: I cannot get into my account & need some help but cannot contact 123 Reg. They have a high cost 0345 phone number they do not answer, idiots on X that do not help at all & they ignore Facebook posts: Domains are important - Avoid like the plague.

August 18, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just tried contacting 123-reg customer…

Just tried contacting 123-reg customer support via the live chat. After waiting more than 40 mins I gave up. Their service has become very poor since they removed ticket option. The live chat and phone service does not tell you how long you need to wait. It simply keeps on sending an automated message saying sorry for the delay. This poor service is not good enough and you need to so something urgently before customers start leaving you. We have been using the service for many years but now thinking about leaving.

July 26, 2025
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not so Deluxe "Upgrade"

Felt pressured over phone conversation during which I stated "I don't trust you" and "I feel I have no choice" to "upgrade" to a deluxe hosting package which seems to offer nothing of any significance than what I already pay for, plus I had to pay five years upfront. I had to contact them again to gain access to the terms and conditions of my new package. The chat service is like talking to a "computer says no" Ai bot of no real help or customer service skills whatsoever. I had to pay immediately then wait for the SSL and other services to be renewed. The new package crosses over services I already have but I get no refund on the crossover period. This is on a product that almost doubled in price without notification. So they obviously hiked the price to get customers to "upgrade" to a service that lowers the monthly fee they'd previously hiked in the first place. How dodgy is that!??! Black Mirror!

July 10, 2025
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