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  1. Re:Slightly OT, need help getting beta set up.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Review of GMail for Your Domain

    http://domaindirect.com/

  2. Domain Direct is good by Kernel+Kurtz · · Score: 1 · on Dynamic DNS - The Good, The Bad and The Cheap?
    Domain Direct (a division of Tucows) has served me very well for many years. They don't have a method for automated changing of your records when your IP address changes (you have to log in and do it manually - a big deal on some ISPs, but not on mine where my dynamic IP changes maybe once or twice a year), but they do allow almost complete control over A records, CNAMEs, and MX records, and do simple redirection as well.

    And their servers are very reliable.

  3. Re:Hosting Myself??? by rajumd · · Score: 1 · on Yahoo To Try To Charge For POP3 Services
    Here are some possibilities:

    Domain Direct: DNS registry with free mail. They give you 1 POP mailbox and 5 forwarding addresses. One nice thing is that they provide catch-alls, i.e., all mail addressed to anything@yourdomain.com can be captured to your POP account. I use this with Fetchmail on my Linux box to create individual accounts for all my family members. One drawback, the POP quota is only 5 MB so I have to poll frequently. Another is that fetchmail with POP can't handle BCCs correctly, so this is not too good for mailing lists.

    DirectNIC: Also offers domain registry services as well as email. DNS is cheaper, mailboxes cost a bit more. A friend who doesn't need email uses this and has no complaints.

    No-IP
    : These guys also provide free DNS under the no-ip.com domain (and a few others). They can host your domain and give you a backup MX capability. More expensive than the other two but probably more full-featured if you can host your own SMTP server.

    Raju

  4. Re:slashdot trademarked /. (and other observations by dcg · · Score: 1 · on Despair Suing 7,000,000 Email Users Over :-(
    Does that mean if I use .\ (dotbackslash.org) I could get my ass sued?

    BTW, someone's already registered dotbackslash.com.

  5. Re:http://www.domaindirect.com $24.95 to transfer by aqua · · Score: 1 · on Transferring Domains From NSI?

    Argh. I haven't found a registrar in this discussion yet that didn't have problematic TOS. And this one's from a tucows affiliate, so it's presumably working through OpenSRS. From domaindirect's agreement: By using the Services under this Agreement, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions of this Agreement and any pertinent rules or policies that are or may be published by us... You agree that we may, in our sole discretion, delete or transfer your domain name at any time.

  6. algore2000.com vs billbradley.com by margaret · · Score: 1 · on Who is the Best Registrar?

    Speaking of domain names, I stumbled upon this today. If you go to domaindirect.com and type in billbradley, it of course says that .com .net and .org are taken. If you click on each one, it does a whois search. (I was looking for an email address to send a friend's as yet unanswered complaint about their campaign mailing list's bad grammar and spelling, but that's another story.)

    Anyway, here is what you get for billbradley.com:

    Registrant:
    Bill Bradley for President (BILLBRADLEY-DOM)
    395 Pleasant Valley Way
    West Orange, NJ 07052
    US

    Domain Name: BILLBRADLEY.COM

    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    Gore, Al (LR1487) haxormad@HOTMAIL.COM
    AlGore2000.com
    2410 Charlotte Avenue
    Nashville, 37203 37203

    202.644.9658

    Record last updated on 02-Feb-2000.
    Record created on 03-Mar-1997.
    Database last updated on 26-Feb-2000 12:34:27 EST.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS1.SHORE.NET 192.233.85.129
    NS2.SHORE.NET 192.233.145.5
    NS3.SHORE.NET 192.233.145.6
    NS4.SHORE.NET 192.233.85.21


    HOLY SMOKES! Does this mean that Al Gore bought billbradley.com in 1997 and then sold it to them? I don't know much about this type of thing, which is why I'm asking here. The entries for .net and .org say pretty much the same thing:


    Domain Name: BILLBRADLEY.NET

    Administrative Contact:
    Turlington, Ed (ET1357) edturlington@BILLBRADLEY.COM
    The Office of Bill Bradley
    1661 Page Mill Road
    Palo Alto,, CA 94304

    650-494-2554 (FAX) 650-494-1739
    Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
    Registrar, Domain (DR1432) shore-dns@SHORE.NET
    Shore.Net
    173 Oxford Street
    Lynn, MA 01901

    781-477-2000 (FAX) 781-593-6858

    Record last updated on 05-May-1998.
    Record created on 05-May-1998.
    Database last updated on 27-Feb-2000 17:29:17 EST.

    Domain servers in listed order:

    NS1.SHORE.NET 192.233.85.129
    NS3.SHORE.NET 192.233.145.6


    Am I interpreting this corectly - the Gore people bought billbradley.com in 1997, then sometime before May 1998, the Bradley people bought it from them then also bought .org and .net?

    -margaret

  7. domaindirect.com by margaret · · Score: 1 · on Who is the Best Registrar?

    I used domaindirect.com to register my domain. It was $70 for 2 years, which after reading the other posts, I suppose is expensive.

    Anyway, domaindirect is run by TUCOWS and I've had nothing but excellent service. If you don't have an IP address to give thenm they will set up a "coming soon" page for you, or you can have it forward to another page. You can also set it up so that your domain name stays in the browser address bar after it forwards. (I think they use an invisible frame or something.) You can edit the meta tags for the forwarding page too.

    As far as email, you get 5 addresses to make up at your domain name. You can either specify a location to forward to, or else use POP mail to check them.

    Hope this helps,
    -margaret