[quote:3b84ec6bc4="sleepingfish"]it's just the business, synical, and - more to the point - broke side of me questioning whether I can get cheaper[/quote:3b84ec6bc4]
http://supanames.co.uk/
For a small business type site you can't go wrong at £15 or £25 per year.
£23.99 + vat gets you a better deal than your mate is offering:
[quote:3b84ec6bc4]Free domain name, 35mb webspace, Unlimited POP3, Unlimited autoresponders, Unlimited email forwarders, Unlimited password protection, Free MS frontpage extensions, Free graphical statistics, PHP4 scripting, MyPANEL control panel, MySQL database, CGI, Perl, C, Python scripting, WAP server, 24/7 FTP access, Server Side Includes - plus hundreds of other features![/quote:3b84ec6bc4]