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  1. Re:Thanks Slashdot! Good registrar recommendation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera
    Yes.

    InetAddresses.net

    I have had registered domains since at least the mid 90's and ended up having one problem or another with every registrar I tried until the last couple of years when I changed to inetaddresses.net.

    Here is what I always recommend that people look for.

    • That the registrar is running on Unix for security and stability.
      BSD or Linux is the most common, but even commercial Unix will do.
      If they are running this kind of service on a toy platform, that is usually a sign of more problems to come.
      You can use netcraft to probe to see what platform they are running on.
    • They have toll free phone support that does not leave you on hold for 30 minutes to reach a human. Doing without this to save a couple dollars/year will always end up costing you many times what you saved from my experience.
    • The price is competitive but not dirt cheap. Registrars have to pay $6.00/yr to Verisign/Network Solutions for every domain they register. If they are letting you register them for less than they can profit on then you ARE going to pay for it somewhere, such as having to pay extra for domain management capabilities or just plain lack of management capabilities, email/url forwarding, requiring you to buy other services, terrible or no support, etc.
  2. Re:Thanks Slashdot! Good registrar recommendation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera
    Yes.

    InetAddresses.net

    I have had registered domains since at least the mid 90's and ended up having one problem or another with every registrar I tried until the last couple of years when I changed to inetaddresses.net.

    Here is what I always recommend that people look for.

    • That the registrar is running on Unix for security and stability.
      BSD or Linux is the most common, but even commercial Unix will do.
      If they are running this kind of service on a toy platform, that is usually a sign of more problems to come.
      You can use netcraft to probe to see what platform they are running on.
    • They have toll free phone support that does not leave you on hold for 30 minutes to reach a human. Doing without this to save a couple dollars/year will always end up costing you many times what you saved from my experience.
    • The price is competitive but not dirt cheap. Registrars have to pay $6.00/yr to Verisign/Network Solutions for every domain they register. If they are letting you register them for less than they can profit on then you ARE going to pay for it somewhere, such as having to pay extra for domain management capabilities or just plain lack of management capabilities, email/url forwarding, requiring you to buy other services, terrible or no support, etc.
  3. A better alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera

    These kinds of problems (in addition to security) are why I always recommend that people use a registrar that is not MS Windows based and has good phone support. We have never had any of these kinds of problems with ours.

    InetAddresses.net

    It is Linux and BSD (Unix) based, has 24 hour toll free phone support, the best domain management control panel interface, and the most free features of any registrar we have used.

    As soon as we saw that godaddy ran on the most insecure platform available, we steered clear of them a long time ago. I also don't like having to constantly worry about every one of the thousands of viruses for Microsoft bringing down our domains.

    Also, steer clear of Network solutions/Verisign.

  4. A better alternative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera

    These kinds of problems (in addition to security) are why I always recommend that people use a registrar that is not MS Windows based and has good phone support. We have never had any of these kinds of problems with ours.

    InetAddresses.net

    It is Linux and BSD (Unix) based, has 24 hour toll free phone support, the best domain management control panel interface, and the most free features of any registrar we have used.

    As soon as we saw that godaddy ran on the most insecure platform available, we steered clear of them a long time ago. I also don't like having to constantly worry about every one of the thousands of viruses for Microsoft bringing down our domains.

    Also, steer clear of Network solutions/Verisign.

  5. Re:Try AutoRenew by vince1 · · Score: 1 · on Keeping Track of Domain Expirations?

    I would say that the best price/features combination should win.

    I fully agree.

    Personally, I find the package offered by eNom to be very comprehensive, their suppot quite good and the price cheap - as long as you buy through a reseller and not directly from eNom (e.g., $8.88/year from namecheap.com).

    I looked at namecheap.com and it looked pretty interesting. However, I had two bad first impressions about them.

    First, they are running their site on Microsoft Windows. That gives me questions about the intelligence of the company and security of your domain registrations. It is likely to have about as much security that Hotbot, running on MS Windows, did when they had thousands (or was it millions) of their email accounts compromised. We don't really want every virus that comes along to wipe out our domain resolution service. That essentially brings our site down, even if our web servers are running Unix and are not directly affected (unless we run all our own name servers and do not use any URL redirection provided by the registrar). We always use Unix based services for all Internet services. We generally prefer BSD based ones.

    Second, I click on their contact link and see no phone number. Just email. I found this to be common with the really low priced registrars. The ones we have tried have always costed us a lot more in lost time and headache in the long run. As I mentioned on my other reply, I have found most registrars do not stand up to the service they promise. If you do not get adequate resolution to a problem via email (which has been the case about 70-80% of the time with us), having no phone number to call just leaves you out in the cold.

    I also checked eNom.com. They are also running on Microsoft Windows. They, at least, have contact phone numbers but they are not toll free. From my experiences with other registrars, especially Network Solutions, leaving us on hold for 45 minutes to reach a human, that is also a deterrent. Notice that InetAddresses.net has a link to a toll free phone number for 24 hour technical support right on the front page.
  6. Re:Try AutoRenew by vince1 · · Score: 1 · on Keeping Track of Domain Expirations?
    First step is to transfer them all to a lower priced registrar: Reason for this is easy, registrars are now a commodity and the lowest price wins. I use godaddy for everything and have found their customer service to be pretty good.

    I register everything in my customers names except for the technical contact and then I turn on the AutoRenew option for each one. Godaddy then sends me a few notices as a reminder before actually renewing them. I never worry about losing them.

    Not just the lowest price, but the best price/performance/service ratio should win. I don't have experience with Godaddy, but am speaking from experience over the last 10 years of dealing with horrible service from domain registrars, with Network Solutions/VeriSign being the worst. There are a lot of registrars out there that appear cheaper at first but are not at all in the long run. See http://inetaddresses.net/about_us.html.

    If you have customers who are choosing their own registrar (as they should) then transferring all the domains to one registrar is not an option.

    First of all, any good registrar will notify their customers well in advance of domains expiring. If your customers are not getting notified, you should highly recommend they change registrars. If you really want to provide a monitoring service, then the script idea to monitor the whois database suggested by j-turkey is probably the best.

    I never allow my ISP's to register my domains for me because most of them end up using Network Solutions, which turns out to be a nightmare. Read this story about how they conspired to steel a domain.

    After years of getting bad/slow/inadequate service from variouis registrars I have tried, this is the best service for the price I have found.

    http://inetaddresses.net

    There are also links on the inetaddresses.net site to the story mentioned above plus other good information about registering domains and what to watch out for.
  7. Re:Try AutoRenew by vince1 · · Score: 1 · on Keeping Track of Domain Expirations?
    First step is to transfer them all to a lower priced registrar: Reason for this is easy, registrars are now a commodity and the lowest price wins. I use godaddy for everything and have found their customer service to be pretty good.

    I register everything in my customers names except for the technical contact and then I turn on the AutoRenew option for each one. Godaddy then sends me a few notices as a reminder before actually renewing them. I never worry about losing them.

    Not just the lowest price, but the best price/performance/service ratio should win. I don't have experience with Godaddy, but am speaking from experience over the last 10 years of dealing with horrible service from domain registrars, with Network Solutions/VeriSign being the worst. There are a lot of registrars out there that appear cheaper at first but are not at all in the long run. See http://inetaddresses.net/about_us.html.

    If you have customers who are choosing their own registrar (as they should) then transferring all the domains to one registrar is not an option.

    First of all, any good registrar will notify their customers well in advance of domains expiring. If your customers are not getting notified, you should highly recommend they change registrars. If you really want to provide a monitoring service, then the script idea to monitor the whois database suggested by j-turkey is probably the best.

    I never allow my ISP's to register my domains for me because most of them end up using Network Solutions, which turns out to be a nightmare. Read this story about how they conspired to steel a domain.

    After years of getting bad/slow/inadequate service from variouis registrars I have tried, this is the best service for the price I have found.

    http://inetaddresses.net

    There are also links on the inetaddresses.net site to the story mentioned above plus other good information about registering domains and what to watch out for.
  8. Re:Try AutoRenew by vince1 · · Score: 1 · on Keeping Track of Domain Expirations?
    First step is to transfer them all to a lower priced registrar: Reason for this is easy, registrars are now a commodity and the lowest price wins. I use godaddy for everything and have found their customer service to be pretty good.

    I register everything in my customers names except for the technical contact and then I turn on the AutoRenew option for each one. Godaddy then sends me a few notices as a reminder before actually renewing them. I never worry about losing them.

    Not just the lowest price, but the best price/performance/service ratio should win. I don't have experience with Godaddy, but am speaking from experience over the last 10 years of dealing with horrible service from domain registrars, with Network Solutions/VeriSign being the worst. There are a lot of registrars out there that appear cheaper at first but are not at all in the long run. See http://inetaddresses.net/about_us.html.

    If you have customers who are choosing their own registrar (as they should) then transferring all the domains to one registrar is not an option.

    First of all, any good registrar will notify their customers well in advance of domains expiring. If your customers are not getting notified, you should highly recommend they change registrars. If you really want to provide a monitoring service, then the script idea to monitor the whois database suggested by j-turkey is probably the best.

    I never allow my ISP's to register my domains for me because most of them end up using Network Solutions, which turns out to be a nightmare. Read this story about how they conspired to steel a domain.

    After years of getting bad/slow/inadequate service from variouis registrars I have tried, this is the best service for the price I have found.

    http://inetaddresses.net

    There are also links on the inetaddresses.net site to the story mentioned above plus other good information about registering domains and what to watch out for.