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Posted to community@apache.org by Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com> on 2002/12/19 21:40:27 UTC
[ot] domain registrars
i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com.
they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good
registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge
exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of
n years signup?
i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely*
happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with
any other registrars at all.
--
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/
Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
"Millennium hand and shrimp!"
Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Thom May <th...@positive-internet.com>.
* Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk) wrote :
> Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> >i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com.
> >they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
> >
> >does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good
> >registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge
> >exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of
> >n years signup?
> >
> >i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely*
> >happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with
> >any other registrars at all.
>
> OpenSRS.
>
Agreed 100%
-Thom
RE: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
We transfered all of our domains from NSI to BulkRegister, and we have been
very happy with BulkRegister, so far.
--- Noel
Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Ben Laurie <be...@algroup.co.uk>.
Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com.
> they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
>
> does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good
> registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge
> exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of
> n years signup?
>
> i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely*
> happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with
> any other registrars at all.
OpenSRS.
Cheers,
Ben.
--
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Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>.
www.godaddy.com has looked good to me [some customers use it], the price
was cheap and the central management seemed useful the one time I went and
used it for them.
I use www.dots-r-us.com, another Tucows reseller and my only complaint
there is that the renewal system is poor. I have to buy a new domain of
'RENEW-domain.com' where domain.com is my domain name, or do the renewal
online. That said, it's never screwed up for me.
Hen
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> i forgot to list a couple of things i need from a registrar:
>
> 1. reasonable transfer prices (no 'pay us for the privilege
> of paying us in the future' hooey, please ;-)
> 2. central management (multiple domains manageable from a
> single signon to the registrar's site)
> 3. ability to have differing per-domain contact information;
> i take care of all aspects of a few domains except paying
> for them, so they should have a different billing address --
> but everything else should be me.
> --
> #ken P-)}
>
> Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/
> Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
>
> "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
>
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Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com>.
i forgot to list a couple of things i need from a registrar:
1. reasonable transfer prices (no 'pay us for the privilege
of paying us in the future' hooey, please ;-)
2. central management (multiple domains manageable from a
single signon to the registrar's site)
3. ability to have differing per-domain contact information;
i take care of all aspects of a few domains except paying
for them, so they should have a different billing address --
but everything else should be me.
--
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/
Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
"Millennium hand and shrimp!"
Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Rodent of Unusual Size <Ke...@Golux.Com>.
all right, i looked at a few and asked some questions. so far,
dotster.com is out in front; they do almost everything i want.
so i tried transferring one of my nsi domains to them yesterday.
hallelujah, nsi apparently let it go through, because i rec'd a
'we're sorry to lose you, 'cuz we've got plans to keep getting
better [sic!]' from them. all in less than 24 hours. dotster's
tracking of the progress of the transfer is superiour, too.
another point: nsi only allows four (4) nameservers. dotster
allows up to thirteen. no answers yet from the others i asked.
from the answers to my last few queries, nsi's tech-support couldn't
help themselves out of a soggy paper bag with both hands, a map,
and a torch. good riddance.
--
#ken P-)}
Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/
Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
"Millennium hand and shrimp!"
Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Dirk-Willem van Gulik <di...@webweaving.org>.
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com.
> they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
Aye - same experience here; suddenly they became a lot worse in the last 6
months. Not sure what happened.
> does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good
> registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge
> exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of
> n years signup?
I am vey happy with domaindirect.com (who is just a plain tucows
reseller). Bear in mind that netsol/verisign often 'looses' your first two
or three transfer requests; so you need to persist a littke.
DW
Re: [ot] domain registrars
Posted by Ben Hyde <bh...@pobox.com>.
I've been happy with http://www.gkg.net/ who is a registrar, i.e. not
intermediated by Tucows or one of the others intermediaries.
I used to be an expert on this mess, two years ago, maybe the rules
have changed... but at that time: Transferring registrations is like
changing brokers or phone companies; the "winning" registrar just pulls
your account from the "loosing" registrar. That operation is free, but
when the account moves you need to purchase registration one more time
- you will loose the any outstanding time on your existing registration.
The winning registrar is scared they will pull a domain that you don't
own; so they establish some little ritual to attempt to authenticate
you. People have settled into asking you to fax your driver's license.
You should not need to interact with the loosing registrar at all. It
is very hard for them to prevent the transfer. That said some loosing
registrars will send an email to assert that you have requested the
transfer and there is no reason not to respond.
For the low price registrars they manage to get only 10-15% of the
money you pay, most of it goes thru to registry. But then they don't
do much more than run a web UI to the registry's APIs.
- ben
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size
wrote:
> i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com.
> they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
>
> does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good
> registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge
> exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of
> n years signup?
>
> i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely*
> happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with
> any other registrars at all.
> --
> #ken P-)}
>
> Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/
> Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
>
> "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
>
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