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Who is the Best Registrar?
luge asks: "I've been looking around at a couple of NSI's new competitors (register.com, for example), and the information on their pages about services and pricing for them is underwhelming at best. I also haven't been able to find any good comparisons on the Web. So, in the experience of the /. community, what is the best registrar to go through for my new Web site? I'm particularly interested in interim services- i.e., I want to grab a few domains now but won't have a good connection/hosting situation for a few months yet, so I'm interested in what options there are for services like URL and e-mail forwarding. Of course, pricing is probably paramount, but ease of manageability is important too- once I get my hosting situation settled, I want to be able to switch over quickly and easily. Any suggestions?"
And the ever continuing quest to look for a decent replacement for NSI continues, and as far as I can tell via various rumors and experiences of other folks, this may not be a bad thing at all. We've handled a similar Ask Slashdot, but it's been four months since that was posted and I figure it's high time to revisit the topic since I still get a lot of these sorts of questions in the submissions bin.
The only drawback I have found is that CORENic doesn't really seem to telly uo how to claim ownership over the DNS servers people have entered into joker and gotten handles for. As a result, my ISP doesn't get notification when I buy a domain. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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There is this free registrar:
www.webprovider.com
Any registrar can't be worse than ol' NSI. That is not, of course, saying that the others are any good....
Also, it let's me be absolutely sure that I own the DNS, since the ISP never touches it. This may seem paranoid, but I've been burned before by these ISP's who will "manage your domain name".
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Although I think it's pure evil, you can always get domains in tonga (.to) or niue (.nu).
It's the internet equivalent of a "1-888" number, except that in this case, it's the little countries that sold out. However, maybe your name won't be taken...
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The list of accredited ICAAN registars is at InterNic.net. This is just to let you know the alternatives, and if some registration company is really allowed to register domains.
I don't think so.
What I really want to know is which registrar provides the least amount of services. You may find this wierd, but I like doing things myself. I've found that that's the only way to get things done right. I like to host my own own servers, I like setting up things on my *nix boxes myself. Anyone who provides email for my domain is going way too far. That's my responsibility, my perogative. So, here's my question, who out there has the cheapest service with the least amount of services. All I want is my domain registered and that's pretty much it. Maybe they could put me on their DNS servers, but that would be an added plus.
The government has been nothing but a pure obstacle to the Internet since day one. If business hadn't fought government and academic apathy and "standards"-imposition every step of the way, the Internet would not even exist now.
Get all government, all laws, all central authority out of the Internet now. Give it room to grow without interference. The Federal government has no legitimate role here. They're parasitizing something they never contributed to. Get them out.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/26/20312 10&cid=28This post
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
First?, or is this 24.6k killing me again?
The register.com folks have always been helpful, even calling long-distance to Canada to resolve a problem I was having with them. Also, making changes to the domain name information takes place almost immediately.
Contrast this to Network Solutions. It can take up to three days to get information changed in their database and they often seem to ignore messages requesting support.
I would definitely choose register.com over Network Solutions in the future. Of course, with the other, cheaper, companies out there, register.com may now have a run for their money.
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Register.com is not bad but I use networksolutions For FREE web hosting and domain parking, go to http://www.neotek.cc They have a Linux boxes and NT w/ FP2000 extensions. You can't beat free :)
i dont trust joker.com. they dont seem to be competant.
Here's a question I'm hoping the /. community can help me with. When you register a domain, youre just buying the rights to a domain, right? Or wrong? I'm trying to figure out where the DNS comes in. Why do I need DNS servers? Is it so I tell them my site name and IP and then they put it in their database and then the information gets sent to all the other DNS servers in the world. Are we updating people's DNS servers everytime we request a page that our DNS server is unsure about and and then has to query another DNS server out there until it finds an answer? Or does the DNS that I would need have to do with all the subdomains I would add to my domain. This is all really confusing to me and I could use some answers.
I have been very happy with their service, both for domain name registration, and for hosting. AFAIK, they are the only ones who offer domain parking free, and the registration costs only $30.00 (yep, that's $15 a year).
Check them out at npsis.com.
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Have people here used them and found that things really work and work well?
WOW SOMEONE MODERATED MY LAST POST UP TO +2, AND THEN IT GOT MODERATED DOWN TO -1 IN ABOUT 40 SECONDS, GOOD JOB MODERATORS!!!
FUCKING MODERATE ME DOWN ALREADY
You're all full of crap. The internet is in such a state of turmoil right now _because_ all of the businesses got involved and ruined things. Businesses getting involved is exactly what caused the government to start managing things. It also drew all of the know-nothing morons to the internet too. Long live Academia. Fight commercialization of the internet... Banners are the worst waste of bandwidth that anyone could have invented! They are the scourge of businesses infesting the internet.
>If the ISO had been involved in videotapes twenty years ago, we might be stuck with >the absurdly inadequate Betamax format. BetaMax was a superior format than VHS. It lost out in the market because of Sony's licensing practices. A group of vendors got together to thwart BetaMax by creating the cheaper, and lower quality, VHS format. In the professional video realm, BetaMax-evolved formats are the standard for analog work. The next time you see a TV news crew, note the "BetaCam SP" stickers on their cameras.
Dotster.com is what I used, and they gave me quick service and their registration fee was only $15/year(don't know if it's still that cheap though), which is $20 less than all other services. I highly recommend them.
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I'm currently looking out www.domaindirect.com which are in the business for some time now, a friend of mine use their service for a year or two now. They are with Tucows and OpenSRS (? I think it's the name of their own registrar). For 70$ for 2 years, you have the domain name registered + 5 emails and http forwarding, which is not bad. They have more services to be available soon (one pop3 account and so on). (By the way I am *not* affiliated with them.)
I guess I'll give them a try soon... Anyone knows them better?
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I used enom.com. They have a good web based domain named manager and free email/www redirection services and best of all, I didn't get my email sold off and nailed with junk email like register.com does.
Register.com seems to be the best. we have 500 domains with them. If you want to register 500 domains with NSI, you have to do it by hand, one at a time. With register.com, you get a corporate contact, and you just call up your contact person and say, "register the following 500 domains for me", or "update the DNS records for these domains to the following..."
Its very nice.
For example, one webhost I use, WorldWebserver.com, offers free domain registration with hosting. But if you're getting, "just domain registration" for $25/year you get one page hosting of one-page site that you can change whenever you want, a catch-all POP3 email box, http logs including http_referer and graphical stats. That's a lot better deal that having your parked domain point at an ad for the registrar!
You can actually do alot with a one-page domain. I've used a few as "storefronts" for affiliate links, or you can just use it for your "front page" and have your other pages on the web space that comes with your dial-up.
Plus the tech support at worldwebserver.com is amazing. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Oh and they use Apache on Slackware too.
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First, a word about register.com. You may want to read through the DNSO archives, the IFWP list, and the DOMAIN-POLICY archives to see what register.com has been up to, particularly regarding the single-letter domains.
You may also want to have a look at their registration agreement, particularly the bit on information ownership. They own all your contact information, and can do whatever they want with it.
Note the section in 6d above where they explicitly say you give them the right to use your information for targeted marketing.
Others aren't any better. BulkRegister has been phone-spamming people with completely automated unsolicited phone calls, in violation of US State and Federal law.
Joker.com and the other current and past CORE registrars have had significant problems in the past, and CORE is losing registrars right and left.
Most of the registrars have had significant and in some cases highly-publicised problems interacting using the SRS -- the Shared Registry System, resulting in things like aol.com's ownership being transferred to an individual (and later changed back), and other domain names not owned by big companies not being so lucky in having their ownership info corrected.
There's a problem with CORE registrars as well...several years ago, when people were once again trying to get new Top-Level Domains (TLDs), CORE managed to have a set of 7 TLD agreed upon. CORE registrars were pre-selling registrations in these 7 TLDs last year. They've now stopped, but should those & go active, it's still unknown whether or not anyone will have a fair shot at registering within them due to these pre-sells.
I'd personally recommend becoming a member of the OpenSRS project, and being your own registrar.
If you can't or won't do that, then do the following: Find and take the time to READ each registrar's Domain Dispute Policy and Registration Agreement, and think of what it means to you if your domain name ownership is challenged. The challenges are mushrooming, and all signs point to corporations getting whatever they want. Go see the resolved UDRP cases to get a feeling for how the wind is currently blowing.
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Either this ramble was created by a very good rant generator, a passable troll, or a woefully-misinformed severaly-brain-damaged political activist who doesn't know the difference between free trade and anarchy.
I suppose you think copyrights and trademarks are wrong and unnecessary too, huh?
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Well, you do have a point there. Some kind of laws governing a system like that would easily prevent cases like the recent Etoy vs Etoys one...
but, here's one of the biggest problems:
if this is done, you could make an "ibm.com" website, win pubic opinion somehow, and then set up a fake e-commerce site. You could dupe thousands of users out of their credit card numbers within the 8 to 12 weeks it takes to "ship" the product before anybody notices.
Besides, how would people decide? Some kind of poll scheme? Couldn't you just find a couple of free ISP's, dial in with a different IP each time, and stuff the ballot box?
And how would "ibm.com" go to your site and IBM's at the same time?
Betamax and VHS weren't called the same thing. In order for two things to make sense and have the same name, they either have to have two completely different functions, or be two versions of the same exact product (whether from competeing manufactururs or not). You can't have TAPEZ and have "vhs" TAPEZ and "betamax" TAPEZ, and expect people who buy TAPEZ to figure out which is which and which will work in their VCR.
(Also, Betamax was a better, higher resolution format... the reason it didn't succeed is becuase it was Sony vs. The World.)
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> Think about that the next time you fire up
> your "ANSI" C compiler: You've been robbed.
> The language you're using was created
> not by business to suit its own needs,
> but by academics to further their
> ideological agendas.
You're out of your mind. The ANSI C committee was well-represented by industry right up to the level of chairman.
Are you seriously trying to pretend that the government could ever have created something as powerful and innovative as the internet? Please, don't kid me. Businesses were experimenting with networking as far back as the mid-1980's, when private companies like Compuserve and AOL laid the technological groundwork for what eventually became the Internet. That's well over a decade ago, in case you're one of those liberals who can't count very well. Then Netscape came along and created a crude prototype of the Internet, and Sun, Microsoft, and Cisco put it on the map. Do you see anything in there about the government? About academia? No, of course not. Those companies have never benefitted in the slightest from academia. The founders of Sun and Cisco left academia because they were unable to do any interesting technology there. They had to leave and go into business before they could start developing their products.
Get your facts straight before you shoot your mouth off.
The Christmas Island registry (http://www.nic.cx) does a pretty fine job of things.
Firstly it's only £20 for the first two years, £10 a year after that.
Then they offer free domains to open source projects.
Also they will give you unlimited email forwarding rules (i.e. as many email addresses @domain.cx to forward to wherever).
Then they will give you web aliasing, that is http://www.domain.cx will display the content of, for example, http://www.geocities.com/wherever/mywebpage/
Not bad for such a low price.
I just registered my latest domain with Dotster - fast, cheap ($25/year regular, $15 to reserve a domain and use their name servers (another $15 when you want to activate it)), and more convenient and secure methods of changing your records. www.dotster.com
Apparently Network Solutions was legally required to make it possible to change registrars - but they weren't required to make it an easy process, and they definitely didn't! I'd love to change all my other domains over to Dotster, and someday, I may take the time and trouble to do it...
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I have so far had good luck using qwho.com, on their front page they offer $35 registration for 2 years through namesecure.com .
Namesecure.com was very prompt in their transfer of the DNS to my server and all around had good customer service (they answered their customer service line in only 3 rings)
Namesecure.com offers other services such as email forwarding and the such, but I have not used nor priced these items.
I wish there was a fscking blue pill
I think pricing is what's bringing everyone down these days. Domains aren't expensive if you look at them from a business perspective, but if you are making a website for non-business reasons all you're doing is losing more money. And today actually getting the domain you want can cause you alot of grief... I'd personally like to see how many domains are "parked" and just being wasted out there.
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
oooooh go on
you know you want to
Windows boxes don't crash, that's a normal part of the OS. Now pour hot grits down your pants for being stupid.
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WHERE THE FUCK DID THE AC OPTION GO?!!! I AM FORCED TO TROLL AT +1!!!!!!
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if this is done, you could make an "ibm.com" website, win pubic opinion somehow, and then set up a fake e-commerce site. You could dupe thousands of users out of their credit card numbers within the 8 to 12 weeks it takes to "ship" the product before anybody notices.
That wouldn't last very long. You can't fool all the people all the time. Word would get out, and that would be the end of it. In the kind of free society I'm envisioning (which is so far outside of your slave-state experience that I don't blame you for missing some of the implications), the customers would quite simply find me and kill me. End of scam. No problem. This is why I would not run such a scam: The disincentives in a truly free society are such that dishonesty will never pay. Therefore dishonesty will never occur. This is called "enlightened self-interest".
how would "ibm.com" go to your site and IBM's at the same time?
I am concerned with social and economic philosophy, not with mindless cavilling over irrelevant technological trivial.
In order for two things to make sense and have the same name, they either have to have two completely different functions, or be two versions of the same exact product (whether from competeing manufactururs or not). You can't have TAPEZ and have "vhs" TAPEZ and "betamax" TAPEZ, and expect people who buy TAPEZ to figure out which is which and which will work in their VCR.
No two things can possibly be identical (read Descartes), therefore some means of differentiation would exist. If a thing exists, information about the thing exists: This, in fact, serves as a quick and dirty definition of "existence". In a truly free society, information would flow freely and the consumer would be well-informed if he chose to be. Consumers would have the necessary information to distinguish one from the other. If a consumer chose not to be informed, that would be his own concern.
Betamax was a better, higher resolution format...
No. Betamax was a grossly inferior format. It failed, remember? It was inferior. I suppose you're an Amiga advocate as well.
We use http://www.DomainNameSystems.com with $15 domain registrations. FANTASTIC customer support, as well as User/Pass login system, bulk registrations and they also have a anti-hijacking program in place. They are new guys on the block, using a radically modified version of OpenSRS.
I like the .nu because it's cheep, and they have lots of names still avail. I mean $45 for two years? pretty good!
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Network Solutions is the first choice that comes to mind. They are slow and imposable to work with so your best bet is to find a computer company that will help you. I work at an ISP where if you want a domain registered we will deal with network solutions making life easier on you.I'm sure that there are many small ISPs that would apreciate the buisness near where you live where ever that is.
I don't really care if some token representatives from industry served on a STANDARDS committee. The mere fact that a STANDARDS committee existed is more than enough to reveal the intellectual bankruptcy of the effort. STANDARDS are, in and of themselves, morally and intellectually BANKRUPT. They destroy innovation, progress, and wealth. They enshrine obsolete technology. Their only purpose is to handicap powerful companies and force them to compete on an "equal" basis with incompetent companies that can't keep up with the latest developments.
No, down Natalie Portman's pants is much more fun. :)
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Driving home last night I heard a comercial for a .cc domain hyping it as the next .com. The comercial was for spot.cc a registrar for that top level domain. What is it? And is spot.cc the only registrar for it?
lower quality, VHS format.
That's absurd. Why then was VHS overwhelmingly chosen by customers? Because it provided better price/performance than Betamax.
In the professional video realm, BetaMax-evolved formats are the standard for analog work.
Again, either you're joking or you're criminally insane. I am a bit of a movie connoiseur myself, and in my extensive experience renting movies, I have not seen a single Betamax tape in well over a decade. They no longer exist.
Parking is free.
Transfers are free.
And, they have the best domain management system I have seen.
Highly recommended!
register.com will do your DNS (no extra charge), and it's a snap to manage your domains online. What worries me is how these cheaper registrars may have downtime that would affect your domain. Internic has been at least mildly reliable with their clunky-ass template system.
That's a great philosophy. Really. I like the idea of not having any protections at all save the support of the community. I love the idea that if I'm in the minority, I'm fucked. That's a wonderful way to live. My slave-state mindest, apparantly, does not prevent me from seeing the beauty of being persecuted for any percieved difference from the majority. You fucking moron. JimBobJones who has always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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That's all there is to say about that: Businesses find VB to produce more robust code in a shorter time. Programmers would rather spend their time on interesting coding than on mindlessly recoding memory management and useless algorithms. In five years, VB has gained more users than C did in twenty-five.
Tell me again which is the better language?
Check out DomainMonger.com. They are cheaper than joker.com, offer free parking, free transfers, a better web-based management system, and they are based in the US, so there are no language barriers in the case that you need support.
I have registered several domains in the last month or so, and I have been very happy with Dotster.com. The domains that I registered there came online a lot faster than the ones that I registered elswhere. They also offer registration from 15 bucks per year, which I think is a great deal.
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Is that clear enough?
I registered through dotster at the beginning of February in order to take advantage of the $15 rate. My 2-cents: I had a few questions after registering, e-mailed them, and had a response in less than 6 hours. In my experience, good customer service-- esp. a good, fast response time-- is a very good indicator for a company's overall quality. Also, it's very easy to update/change account info (name-servers, for example) with dotster.
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One: Beta tapes are still manufactured and in fact used. I had a film prof. who only used beta tapes.
Two: Movie film isn't beta based, but television, esp. tv news, uses a Beta derived format.
Check your facts next time, foolbasket
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Odd though, that none of the new registrars are located in non-WIPO countries. Conspiracy?
Well register.com sponsors granitecanyon.com, the public dns people. But is dependent upon the referals that granitecanyon makes to register.com.
So if you want to help out granitecanyon, just hop on over to soa.granitecanyon.com then click over to register.com and register your domain.
Register.com offers a very nice interface. But they are a bit pricy.
Personally I now use totalnic.net They offer great service. With no frils. Nice web based interface for changing DNS information. Althouh they are plaiged with the trouble that CoreNIC has...
Overall for now TotalNIC is in my opinion your best bet due to the cheap pricing.
Well good luck
it's $15/year, interface could use some work.. overall, I'm a satisfied customer. The only problem is that you have to look up special code for your dns server before submitting it.. takes probably a minute of your time but still, they should fix that.
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Oh, i guess the internet wasn't invented in the 70's then and the US gov't didn't help develop it to aid in the national defense. Also, life on earth began arround 6000 years ago, the sun revolves around the earth, the sky is green, the earth is flat, and Natalie Portman lusts for you with the passion unknown to modern man. Does that about cover it?
Damn, I post an interesting comment, and BAM it gets -1 just because it's from "Troll Boy".
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Exactly! We need to stop the VHS swindlers and support Betamax: the People's Video Format. Looks what's happening with DVD: the capitalists are attempting, through force and violence, to quell the uprising of the Socialist Open Source movement!
Well, I'll have none of your money stained red with the blood of the proletariat. We need to work together to win this through revolution!
Beta tapes are still manufactured and in fact used.
So are vacuum tubes. Both, you should know, are manufactured exclusively in the "People's" "Republic" of China and in former Eastern Bloc nations. This is because communist dictatorships and recovering ex-communist dictatorships do not have the capital or the expertise to work with modern technology. These are countries that still use horse-carts for transportation. Is that clear enough for you? Horse carts. Vacuum tubes. Betamax. End of story.
Such societies may strike you as an ideal world of some sort, but the rest of us would much rather live in the 20th century and have enough to eat. I enjoy having a life expectancy of eighty or ninety years. Your friends in the East Bloc and China have an average life expectancy of thirty-five years. This is worse than stone-age hunter-gatherer cultures had. Imagine that, ten thousand years of opportunities and they've lost ground. Don't talk to me about those savages. They are beneath contempt.
I had a film prof. who only used beta tapes.
An academic. Predicable enough. No doubt he was some kind of Freudian Marxist as well, parasitizing the tax payer as he worked to undermine the economy and the morals of the nation.
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They did this for the very good reason that it is inferior. It is very much in the interest of the government to ensure that only the most obsolete and flawed communication technologies find their way into the hands of the citizens. Well, this time the citizens and business won, while government lost. Beta is dead, used only in the former Eastern Bloc, mainland China, and (as I've just been told elsewhere in this thread) by a few old "red guard" academics still drawing their intellectuals' welfare checks from Eastern universities. None of these users are the slightest bit relevant or interesting.
Anyone have any experience transferring their domains from network solutions? I just got a new server and have been trying to change the IP for my primary nameserver w/ NSI. No results, of course and their phone support is only Mon-Fri. I have another domain on dotster.com and it's beautiful .. web-based w/ username/password .. instant changes .. prompt support .. cheap as hell (I got in on the $15/yr deal). Anyways, what involves transferring a domain? Has anyone actually successfully done this?
Imagine that you go and type in your domain name to register in some small registrar's website. Some guy is sitting there and looking at the domains as they're being submitted. When he sees something good, he hits a key and that domain is registered by the registrar and you're told it's unavailable. I had this uncomforing thought when I read /. story on nsi messing up with a domain transfer and some other registrar yonking it. That registrar was affiliated with realnames.com that sells domain names. I think it's register.com? but I'm not sure. If I was registering a domain that is very important to me, I would probably use NSI for this reason.
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I agree! This should work with phone numbers too. You shouldn't have the right to claim phone numbers for yourself. I can choose to call myself 1-900-HOT-GRITS or (310)555-1212 and THE MARKET should decide who the calls should go to! Down with evil imperialist government and regulators.
Free enterprise should prevail. Thatis the way God intended it all to be!
Oh, and Gore invented the internet too.
Mmmm.. Donuts
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Listen up, Count Chocula. You can buy beta tapes at Wal-Mart, WALMART, for God's sake, that shining beacon of American grits and rednecks, and, I assume, your dream employer. And while I realise that to someone of your specious intelligence comparing Betamax to ox-carts is a brilliant feat of forensics, it is in fact more proof that you probably eat soup with a fork.
Bill Joy (later of Sun) wrote BSD at Berkeley, then brought it to Sun where it became SunOS.
Cisco came out of one of the Bay Area universities as well; they developed their first routers for the on-campus LAN.
Of course I've done my homework. As a troll, I feel that my professional ethics include an obligation to present the most perfect mirror-image of reality that I am able.
Nerds 2.0.1 by Stephen Segaller has a lot of good information in the first half, about BBN, D?ARPA and PARC and all that. Around the mid-'80's it kind of wanders off into cheerleading for enterpreneurs (lots of oohing and aahing about market caps with many zeroes, snoooooze) and the actual "nerds" of the title get completely forgotten. They repeat a lot of Microsoft PR gibberish verbatim, as if it were established fact. Nevertheless, the coverage of the 1960's and 1970's is groovy.
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You can buy beta tapes at Wal-Mart, WALMART, for God's sake, that shining beacon of American grits and rednecks,
Throwing around bigoted slurs about "rednecks", eh? Well, that's entirely typical of East-Coast liberals who despise the working class while purporting to "help" them by taxing them to death and giving their money to the undeserving poor. The deserving poor, of course, hate the liberals more than anybody does, because they liberals try to keep them down by making them dependent on welfare payments. This destroys urban economies and denies the urban poor their rightful opportunities for self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. And all of this keeps the rich liberal elite on top and in control, just the way they like it.
You fool no one.
I would not recommend this company at all based on my current experience. On Friday they started forwarding all my domain e-mail to some other address. I have been unable to contact them at all through e-mail or phone. They are completely unresponsive. You can bet that if any sort of problem occurs outside of regular business hours, especially a major privacy or security problem, that you are basically fucked. I'll be moving my accounts as soon as possible.
Registration is only $25 a year and changes are web-based. NetWiz is part of CORE, which hosts several registrars.
THE MARKET should decide who the calls should go to!
In Socialist France, where the government has absolute centralized control over all communications, telephones take months to be installed and the service is among the worst on Earth. That must seem reasonable to you.
In fact the only way to guarantee decent service and fair prices is to open the market and let competition do its work unhindered.
Free enterprise should prevail. Thatis the way God intended it all to be!
Yes, it is: "Thou shalt not steal." Do you approve of theft? I get the impression that you do. The Ten Commandments are the fundamental basis of civilization on Earth. If you are opposed to them, you are opposed to civilization. It's that simple. You can't have a free and prosperous society without moral rules for conduct. The alternative is anarchy, warlordism, and destruction.
Take a look at DomainMonger.com. They offer better service than NSI and register.com, but they cost only $17 to register a domain. That's right, $17 to register a domain, with no other fees. And unlike Joker and Dotster you don't have to pay for transfers, and they guarantee that they won't raise the price in the future when you have to renew your domain.
Not only that, DomainMonger.com has a cool web-based management interface that allows you to make modifications to multiple domains at one time. The manangment system uses newer and better technology, unlike other registrars who are tied to the badly implemented systems that were put in place years ago.. Check them out!
http://DomainMonger.com
What is clear is that without a central gov't to protect the rights of the minorities you have . . . totalitarianism,
Totalitarianism without a central government? That's quite a trick. Would you care to explain the details?
as the strongest will rise to the top and use there position to subject the rest of society to their designs.
The principle of enlightened self-interest makes this impossible in theory; in practice, it will quiet simply be impossible. Free associations of armed free men will not allow such events to transpire. Free men value their freedom, and if they are armed they have the means to preserve it. Totalitarianism can never come about in a power vacuum, because there is no such thing as a power vacuum: Armed free men always have power, and that power supersedes all others. Totalitarianism occurs only when imposed from above, as in Russia in 1917.
I have two domains, one through NSI, one through NameSecure. NSI's service is bad, NameSecure's is much worse.
Also, NameSecure has an interesting clause in their user license - it basically says that you agree to anything that they might later put into their license, ie, you agree to anything they want.
--
Mark Fassler
fassler@verinet.com
At Nominalia!! They're decent I guess. Main lame point is a $60 fee to transfer ownership of the domain... they're set up for cybersquatters, clearly... (cheap initial registration, if you sell it, then you have to pay them, but who cares, cuz by that point you've made $$$ anyway...)
http://www.communitech.net/ their virtual hosting pricing, and what it comes with, are hard to beat. they'll host on either solaris or (ahem) NT. They also have a dedicated server package, but that would seem overkill at first. Of course, they're not geared to doing only the registration part, but if you're looking for a home for it as well, these guys are great....hth
mas cerveza, por favor politically incorrect stu
I'd like to see Ms. Portman transformed into a statue!!
If anyone is looking to grab a few domains, but is not ready to commit to a host/dns provider yet, I suggest you check out soa.granitecanyon.com.
They let you create your own A, CNAME, and MX records, so you can register through any registrar you want, and if you're without DNS, have them point at the granitecanyon set up for DNS resolution. This has saved me many a time.
You can't just have a paternalistic, "big brother" government hand you these things for free. If you cannot earn them, you do not deserve them, just like anything else.
All you want is a handout, of one kind or another. It's pathetic. First you want a centralized state agency to coerce me into using an inferior videotape format, and then you want that same agency to wave its magic wand and somehow provide you with "dignity". Listen, pal: That state agency creates crime by destroying the economy with welfare. When those criminals come to your door, where then are your "property rights" and your "dignity"? They are in your own two hands if you have the guts and the common sense to exercise your right to assert them by defending your home, and they are nowhere at all if you do not create them right then, right there, by your own will and nothing else.
Is that clear enough yet?
I highly recommend Dibby.com... They are fast (on the same backbone as yahoo) and relatively inexpensive (14.95 a month) Some highlights of dibby.com 200 POP E-mail Accounts 300MB Server Space Unlimited Traffic Unlimited Auto-Responders CGI-BIN Anonymous FTP Secure Server Daily Backups And alot more... I have had _zero_ problems with them. Great service.
-- We should kill all the intolerant people in the world.
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The earliest form of human government was the tribal slave-society, as now practiced in much of Africa. Each tyranny begat the next.
Simple enough for you?
The Public DNS Service seem very cool.
This isn't related either, but DynoDNS will give you yourname.dynodns.net for a dynamic IP. updatable with a web page or various clients you can put in your ip-up script.
I realize the past changes itself to suit your particular needs, but before even "tribal slave society," (I do truly enjoy your creativity) humanity was just a bunch of cave-folk living their caveman "try not to die" lifestyle. It was anarchy, and from it came government. How, then, was totalitarianism imposed from above?
I must know!
>That's absurd. Why then was VHS overwhelmingly chosen by customers? Because it provided better
>price/performance than Betamax.
Better price and availability do not equate to technical superiority.
>I am a bit of a movie connoiseur myself, and in my extensive experience renting movies, I
>have not seen a single Betamax tape in well over a decade. They no longer exist.
That's like arguing that VHS is a better format than Laserdisc because I can rent VHS tapes at any Blockbuster video.
Analog formats that evolved from BetaMax (such as BetaCam SP) rule in the professional video market. This includes TV news, comercials, and the dreaded infomercial. In a post-production facility, the only VHS decks you will find are used for duplication. You'll never see a VHS deck in a professional edit suite.
(note: I don't work in the video business, but many of my friends do)
Tribal slavery was the original, autochthonous form of government. None preceded it. Or, as they say, "YHBT", though I suspect not very thoroughly.
What is the entire process for registering a domain name, anyway? Do I just pay the cash and tell them my IP address, or what?
:)
I'm just wondering, because if I ever get a static IP link, a little vanity domain name might be nice.
-Joe
Better price and availability do not equate to technical superiority.
I said "price/performance", and, yes, that is precisely how "technical superiority" is defined.
That's like arguing that VHS is a better format than Laserdisc because I can rent VHS tapes at any Blockbuster video.
Yes, precisely. If Laserdisc had any intrinsic technical merits, it would obviously have become the preferred format. As it has none, it was deservedly abandoned and forgotten.
Analog formats that evolved from BetaMax (such as BetaCam SP) rule in the professional video market . . . You'll never see a VHS deck in a professional edit suite.
This, of course, is a bald-faced lie. I am a professional myself, and have seen nothing resembling what you describe.
. . . the dreaded infomercial.
Ahhh, you reveal your true colors at last! An opponent of the free flow of commercial information. Typical, quite typical. That free flow of information enables competition, which is the force that kills of the inferior technologies to which you are inexplicably addicted. But I do not pretend to be able to fathom the depths of the mind of a madman -- for such you clearly are.
The reason I use C is because it was created by a programmer, based on sound, practical, principles. If I wanted an "academic" language I would use Pascal, Modula2, or Smalltalk. The differences between "K&R" C and "ANSI" C are small and rather cosmetic. None of my programs are affected by those small differences.
I agree that there may be some unnecessary standards, but I think *international* name registries are truly necessary. Otherwise, how could we get to chose which site is www.slashdot.org?
I don't understand what you mean by "freee competition" regarding domain names. You mean a Domain Name Server could allocate any random IP address to each name?
registration was simple and took less than 2 minutes. the price was the thing that did it though. i almost registered with nsi last year, but i hated the thought of paying 70 bucks and cancelled the next day
so do check domainmonger.com out, it worked for me
btw i do not work for them so i am not some shill for the company
More people are willing to accept everything they're told as though it's gospel, rather than think for themselves.
I pointed out that C had a twenty-year head start on VB, yet still it has been utterly supplanted. Twenty years to build up mindshare, all of which evaporated when a worthy successor appeared. Who "told" them to use VB? Nobody did. There was a time when VB was unknown and obscure. A groundswell of support pushed it into a position of market dominance, a groundswell composed of programmers more interested in productivity than in gratuitous obscurity. I can only assume that the power and flexibility of VB are unmatched, because without a hint of coercion it has won the loyalty of more professionals than any other development tool in history.
More people use AOL than any other ISP in the world.
And would you please show me whose holding a gun to their heads, forcing them to use it? Ha ha, of course you can't. They use it because it is the solution that best suits their needs. AOL has earned its position, just as you have earned your mediocrity.
How is tribal slavery original? There was plenty before that. Am I to assume that you have no response to my far from meaningless question, and you have resorted to a "uh-huh, nah-ah" defense? Please don't tell me that someone who can use the term "autochthonous" has no answer to my question.
Just because you say something is autochthonous(I admit, I had to look that up), does not mean that it is.
You can do better than that, I know it.
where can I buy hot grits?
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
I used NPSIS.com for both registrar and hosting. It was $45 for two years (less than the usual $70) and $8/mo for hosting with 50MB and 5 pop3. Not a bad deal and they are pro-open source with a great Perl Web Mail app that you can run on your site. I thought about using dreamhost.com also...
pronoblem
try A+ Plus. theyre an accredited registrar by icann. in your case where you dont or wont have your own nameservers to use, theyll let you use their nameserver to park your domain until you get yours up and running. they charge you only the fees internic charges nothing more.
Maybe you should be "Son of Troll Boy" or something.
Am I to assume that you have no response to my far from meaningless question, and you have resorted to a "uh-huh, nah-ah" defense?
Yes, you should certainly assume that I have no response to your very astute question, but I didn't bother with any defense at all: I threw myself on the mercy of the court.
If you'd kept looking things up, you'd've seen that "YHBT" means "You have been trolled", which I was forced to admit because you'd argued me into a corner that I couldn't get out of.
I was hoping somebody would grab that "imposed from above" hook and nail me with it, because as far as I've ever been able to see, that's the rock on which anarchism always founders: If it works, why don't we have it already? It's not turtles all the way down. The idea that tyranny proceeds only from prior tyranny is a regressus and dammit, there's no way around that.
http://www.penavista.com/ Penavista.com has great name registration and service and they are willing to work with you one on one. They are the cheapest but they are reliable and provide a lot of services the cheaper ones don't.. also if you park with them you get an extremely fast connection.
I registered my domain name through register.com and am very happy with their service.
No later than 10 hours after I submitted it my domain was active. They offer free DNS services (which they don't advertise heavily) for people who register and also sponsor granite canyon which is a free dns service for those who don't have dns provided. The web based interface for updating your DNS is excellent and overal I feel I've gotten good bang for the buck.
I've had some friends also register with them and they are also happy.
-Saono
www.artificiallives.com
Signature Domains is very cool. They're up front about pricing from the start, and provide a bulk discount. They're at www.signaturedomains.com
>I said "price/performance", and, yes, that is precisely how "technical superiority" is defined.
I thought that "technical superiority" was based on the merits? By your logic, Windows must be "technically superior" because that's what the market chose.
VHS won over BetaMax in the consumer space due to price and availability. Performance and technical merit had nothing to do with it.
In the professional space, where price takes a back seat to quality, BetaMax-derived formats are king.
> >You'll never see a VHS deck in a professional edit suite.
>This, of course, is a bald-faced lie. I am a professional myself, and have seen nothing resembling what you describe.
A professional what, manager at Blockbuster?
It doesn't take a trained eye to see that VHS (and it's derivatives) produce lower quality video than virtually every other format.
I thought that "technical superiority" was based on the merits?
I know for a fact that technical superiority is based on merits. On what else could it be based? Snob appeal, like Beta? Job security, like UNIX and C? Indeed not.
By your logic, Windows must be "technically superior" because that's what the market chose.
That is precisely correct.
register.com censors domain names containing certain text strings. I ran a little experiment to test this, and was able to ascertain that they censor after several emails and telephone calls. They won't even tell you you're being censored; you just get a message that says "The domain you have requested is not available." Network Solutions also censors, but at least they tell you when they do so and why.
Do we really want to do business with a company that limits what we can say? I suggest going with a smaller company that doesn't consider itself a guardian of our morality.
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
I know what you are. I'm sure you know what I am. Feeding the trolls is something I like to do, but when someone gives up so easily it kind of leaves me empty. You could have gone on, continued the battle, pushed the thread beyond the right hand margin, but you didn't. I was hoping this dance would have lasted a bit longer. The drudgery lawncare on Sundays deserves a little spicing up, and the Yahoo! chatrooms just aren't fun anymore.
/. Just bring your A game next time ;)
Perhaps we shall meet again, on the troll fields of
JBJ
I do this for a living and have lost hair over domain transfers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, when you register a domain do it with an e-mail address that you will never change!! Most registration services require an e-mail authorization reply from the registered admin. contact. Many people that have transfered doamins to our service no longer have access to the e-mail address on the registration and it will casue delays. I woulr reccomend using NSI's "Worldnic" registration system. They have all that forwarding garbage that people seem to want but best of all, you can easily make changes to the registration through their website and they don't have to mail anything to anybody for approval.
I know what you are. I'm sure you know what I am. Feeding the trolls is something I like to do, but when someone gives up so easily it kind of leaves me empty.
Sorry. I just crapped out. Also I have this problem of wanting to stop and congratulate people when they're good
Never, by the way, never ever accuse a sincere Christian right-winger of being a Socialist. They often get really freaked out and it's no fun any more.
Perhaps we shall meet again,
I'm looking forward to it. 'Till then,
--80md
SpinWeb Net Designs
Without making too much of a pitch out of it, I assure we can take care of your domain transfer issues convienently. We host on Unix systems and are used to hosting high profile sites. email me if you would like to discuss it in more detail.
-- Solaris Central - http://w
Actually, also the people at JOKER have no problem with English language. ;)
Michele.
I have used register.com quite a few times.
Compared to using network solutions they are a dream! Their web interface makes it really easy
to make changes and those changes are propogated
rather quickly. No more stupid emailing then and them emailing back..over and over. As long as you
know the domain name and the password you can make
any and all changes needed. Thye will park your
domain for free, not sure about email forwarding though.
Experiances with several domain registrars have shown me what pitfalls can be encountered when choosing a domain. The most important that I have found is the interface to the domain management, whether it be through email, phone or online this can result in alot of headaches. The best experiance I have had is with names4ever.com (http://www.names4ever.com). An easy to use interface and online maintenence make domain ownership a breeze. Not to mention free hosting until you have a site/dns server set up.
I suppose that propagation to the root servers takes a fixed amount of time no matter what the service, but would love to be shown otherwise.
bp
For a couple months now I have been attempting to edit the configuration of a domain i registered with NSI... however every time i attempt to logon i get an error message saying that the system is temporarily unavailable.
Has anyone else had this problem? How else do i go about changing the settings for my domain (to change the nameservers, etc)?
Is it possible to renew a domain with a different registrar than the one you signed up with?
I have to renew soon and I don't want to give more money to N$I...
Thanks
Joker works, but the transfer fees suck. Paying in Euro's can cause extra CC fees too (being US based). I've used quicknic.com. They are $49 USD including two years registration and web/email forwarding. Interface isn't the best, but email support has been good. They also don't seem to have a filter for Carlin's 7 dirty words like netsol and register.com.
Clear Channel Communications, owner of radio and television in any market worth having, is pushing the .cc accounts.
Big time marketing muscle, they own Art Bell, Rush Limburger, Dr. Laura, Dr. Dean Edel, and a couple of other blabbermouths with +5MM audience.
Maybe they can light a fire under the Esther Dyson/ICANN'T crowd.
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.)
.net and .org say pretty much the same thing:
.org and .net?
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
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
-margaret
I registered a domain with TotalNIC.net they have a web/email interface for changing all your contacts, and everything went down smoothly. I paid via CC, the fee was $35 for two years. I then used tzo.com to dynamically house my IP address; since I am still stuck with a 56k PPP connection.
Now I get mail to my linux router box via qmail. Everything works great.
-d9
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Although it may not have the most professional website, I've found joker.com to be extremely profficient, AND extremely cheap. Even though it's based in Germany, they accepted my credit card fine. However, the best thing is the variable registration time AND the great prices. They offer from 1 year up to 10 year registration times, and at a price of about $16 per year. It's a great value. I've had my domain with them for 6 months, and haven't had any problems. No insecure email or stupid extras, either. They also offer name servers(at $6 a year) if you need them. They offer the same or better ability to change information than the usual, too. Overall, I found joker.com much easier to work with AND half the price of newtork solutions :P I hope Network Solutions has some alternate form of profit, they suck at domain registration. I recommend joker.com to anybody who wants a domain.
AutoForward.com can register your domain for between $16-$20 per year depending on how many years you register. They also have domain/email forwarding for $20/year on top of a registration or Do-It-Yourself DNS for only $5 per year. Try http://www.AutoForward.com and see for yourself.
Looking through all the other comments, I haven't seen any mention of some of the questionable actions that certain registars (Netsol, register.com) have taken. Remember the races.com dispute? For me, that's enough to never consider using Netsol. Register.com claimed no responsibility, but really, greatdomains.com is the same company, and the one who refused to give up the races.com. Therefor, they are bastards. Just my thoughts.
Domainmonger.com is pretty good - I registered my domain name throught them as well. In addition, I would suggest mydomain.com - it provides e-mail forwarding for free, and I've never had problems with it's service. BTW, I'm not affiliated with either of these companies.
Registering a domain these days seems to be a pretty high involvement decision, indicating your domain name is worth just a bit more than the token registration fee. So rather than haggling over a couple of dollars for an important decision, I suggest you check out Internet Names WorldWide at http://www.inww.com. When you register your domain, they give you a registry key, giving you the ability to make your own changes in real time at their maintenance page. So if you are changing hosting companies in the future and you need to make changes to your domain you won't have to wait days or months. You can make the changes yourself at http://www.inww.com in about 5-10 seconds. Also, they will be in business next year. GB
Just wanted to warn all of you out there not to use register.com - the company is a rip-off. My saga: Tried to register a domain name with them, their automatic billing system told me that it couldn't process my credit card. No problem, went and registered with another domain company. Next day, got an e-mail from Register.com saying that they had registered my domain name. Told them that that wasn't the case, I had already registered with another company. Had to make a total of 6 e-mails, and 2 phone calls before they reversed the charge to my credit card. Next month, they charged me again for domain name. Took it up with my credit card company - told them to block any chages from register.com and dispute the current charge. Register.com has been sending me harassing e-mails that I had agreed to be charged irregardless of whether my domain name was registered or not. So, avoid REGISTER.COM like the plague. I'm considering sueing them, and I'd be interested if anybody else would be interested in having a class-action lawsuit - you can contact me. I'm especially concerned because they have my domain registed to them on their web site.
can't go past these guys, competitive pricing but most importantly, GREAT service. Never had a problem with these guys
- Personal service
- Free Primary and Secondary DNS
- Free web redirect
- Free MX
Highly recommended to (at least) all EuropeansDo they give you a DNS service? I want to park a domain, but i don't know if the company will have to put a permanent ad on my page or something. Does anyone know if they just give you the domain and leave you alone when you're ready to take it?
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
(see subject) I know what a DNS service is, but is this just two different servers doing the same thing?
They that quote Benjamin Franklin on liberty and safety deserve neither.
When it is possible to survive without competing fiercely in the cutthroat world of business, when the weak are not destroyed, the nation has gone soft and no power on Earth can preserve it from swift and violent dissolution.
I fear for our nation.
I didint get a chance to scan all of the comments you guys threw out there yet but I doubt this one has been touched yet. In order to register a domain with all of the individual countries out there, like domain.com, then domain.com.jp, domain.jp, domain.com.de, domain.de, etc. etc. to cover every contry, is there anybody who's found an easier method than contacting the individual registrar's listed for each country? Isint there a way to globally register a name with every domain registry on earth?
01:36AM up 426 days, 2:46, 1 user, load average: 0.14, 0.11, 0.05
Consumers are normal people, and therefore, morons.
Your contempt for the honest hardworking common people of America is plain to see. It is creatures like you who have plunged this nation into an endless hell of welfare dependency, violent crime, and drugs.
I suppose you consider yourself superior to these "common people". I suppose you consider yourself qualified to rule, to impose your will on them, much like Clinton and his criminal associates.
There will be a reckoning. Believe you me, there will be a reckoning.
'Tain't answering right now. What good is a DNS service if something like slashdotting it overwhelms it?
"A gun is a tool, Marian. No better, no worse than any other tool. An axe, a shovel, or anything." Shane (1953)
VB is not used by academics. VB is pushed by idiots who sneer at academics just as much as you do. Academics tend to be attracted to elegant, simple languages like LISP and C. Talk to an academic some time.
Other than that, yeah, VB is a toy for morons.
Perl has often been described as a VB for unix.
Yes, that's precisely correct. Both share a "kitchen sink" philosophy, and a belief that rationality and consistency in a language is of no value. Neither was designed; both "just grew", with predictable results. It's for people who can't cope with a real programming language, but who want to throw code at non-trivial tasks anyway. It's occupational therapy for sysadmins. They play with it and it keeps them out of trouble, like giving a kitten a ball of yarn. For the competent programmer faced with a trivial task, UNIX fortunately provides a number of excellent very high-level languages like awk, Python, etc. There's no need to resort to Perl.
it's still a normal guys version of c
Some of Perl's operators use the same characters as analagous operators in C, and they both use curly braces to delimit blocks. Other than that, there is absolutely no similarity whatsoever. C is very close to the machine. Much of C maps to pointer arithmetic in a very immediate 1:1 kind of a way. Virtually all of C maps directly to assembly language. Perl is nothing like that. Perl is, as you say, a toy for morons.
As I understand it, the government created Arpanet (I don't remember what it stands for) as a method to communicate reliably over large areas in the event of a major nuclear war. The government funded the beginnings of the Internet, but the Internet and Milnet broke apart. The Internet is completely a civilian construction. The government *SHOULD* keep its hot hands out of the Internet, but Arpanent and Milnet are their toys.
Thus, the Internet had roots that were funded by the government, but the Internet itself was built by universities and other civilian organizations.
Yeesh. Trollers come up with the dumbest stories!
-lf
umm, so in this free state with a bunch of cowboys running around with AK-47's what's to prevent a couple of people from busting out with a better wepon, or organizeing a large number of people to impose totalitarianism
Armed free men will always defend their freedom. The only way totalitarianism can be imposed is if free men are unarmed, or if armed men are unfree. Your scenario is meaningless and absurd.
The problem is that when you get a bunch of guys in one place, without any power checks other than each other, they tend to look for other, weaker bunches of people to beat/kill/rape/harass/etc...
That's absurd! Such a thing can only happen in a society that is far gone in totalitarianism already, controlled by liberals and other fascists. People like you, in fact. Free men do not behave that way.
On a much smaller scale, this can be observed on any grammer school playground. How often does the bully get his ass kicked? not real often. What about the class nerd? every other day
One word: Equalizer.
This is why liberals seek gun control: It enables bullies of all ages to commit their crimes with impunity. Your archetypical playground situation maps easily onto adult life: Bully == Liberal. Class nerd == free men. But in adult life, the free men are armed.
They only attack those who can not or will not fight back effectively, exactly the people who do should be protected,
Well, now you've veered into some serious irrationality. People incapable of protecting themselves deserve nothing from those around them. They are weak and they get what they deserve. You are describing welfare. The results of this diseased worship of weakness are all around you in an astronomical crime rate, high taxes, and rampant drug abuse. These people should never, ever be protected. In a free society, they must be left to compete as best they are able. If they can't compete, that's nobody's concern but their own. False compassion will only hurt everybody in the long run, resulting in a weak and soft culture which cannot defend itself against foreign aggression or domestic tyranny.
If you were a weakling, you deserved all the suffering you got. If you have since become strong, you have earned the right to live freely. I will not congratulate you, because as a free man you are an isolated individual with no need for the "approval" of others. Only in strength is there freedom; only in dominance. Only in the lethal and unhindered competition of free men is human potential actualized.
www.wyattweb.com has free parking and $24 registration. I have regged over 20 domains w/ them and they are fast plus they are really quick when transfering domains to them.
The only problem I have with NSI is they wouldn't let me register fuck.com or motherfucker.com or any varient of *fuck*.*. They said something about not having to register it because of some constitutional right blah blah.. Basically they wouldn't register any curse word domain. But I guess xxxcumsluts.com is OK.
I've also been using GraniteCanyon, a free service, as my DNS provider.
Everything seems fine so far. I've had my domain for a month or so with no problems.
Hey $15 is nuts for a domain name. Check out http://www.opensrs.org (it might be .com) for domains at $10 and changes are made over the web. Its the best.
I registered sparkyb.net for $15/year from doster.com. They were great and easy. You are on your own as far as DNS but I got Public DNS to work after a week of playing (www.granitecanyon.com). Doster has now raised their rates to $25/year. I'm glad I registered for 5 years in advance.
http://www.jumpdomain.com/ is only 15$ per year, they use OpenSRS.org (for 8$-12$ per year), so the administration is easy and nice. registration by credit card is immediate. very personal service answering fast.
i know several people that are waiting since weeks for totalnic to fix some domains that are in limbo there. ugly.
kind regards philippe, http://A-Z-Internet.com/dns/
your kidding, right?
Right.
you cant honestly be that stupid.
No, of course not. I unmasked myself here a few hours ago.
To the best of my knowledge, your account is accurate. When a post is as perfectly wrong as mine was, when all his facts are exact mirror images of reality, it's probably a troll. Real idiots aren't that thorough
The twin joys of trolling are running into people like you who have their facts straight, and also running into idiots who are just as wrong as me -- but they mean it. The latter are more fun, to be honest, but it's all good.
They offer domain registration for $20 a year, with no minimum contract length.
A. Lynch
http://sprawl.net
How about DomainMonger.com? They charge $17 for one year, and the rates decrease if you register for multiple years at a time. They offer free DNS parking and do not charge fees for ownership transfers. Plus they don't retain any right to take your domain from you in the future. Pretty good deal if you ask me.
You're the least-informed poster here -- and so, naturally, you are the most arrogant as well.
ARPA: Advanced Research Projects Agency
ARPANet grew into what is now called the internet. It is in no meaningful sense differentiated from the internet.
He said that the internet was built by government and academia. You, my little imbecile, are clearly unaware of the fact that "academia" is another word for "universities". And who funds heavy research at universities? The government, my dear little retarded child. He was right. You are a moron. Die, please.
And now the best we can do for censorship is a few words that only crepuscular fools use anyway in our domain names. I'm not sure whether that means that there is hardly any censorship, or whether it means that we have so thouroughly censored our own intellects that we are no longer dangerous anyway.
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-- Slashdot sucks.
I haven't ever used Dotster, but I do note that they are using ASP - a first bad sign - and that their internal redirection sends me to "Http://blahblah". I have some serious doubts about the technical skills of folks who would put any uppercase characters in there...
Spot.cc is total CRAP. They reserve the right to place BANNER ADS on your damn domain (no, I'm not kidding, see the section titled "How can you offer FREE URL forwarding when others charge for this service?" listed 3/4 down the page, here . They will CHARGE YOU A YEARLY FEE for the 'option' of no banners. Thats sick. In other words, its url forwarding. They'll 'forward' your domain to wherever you want, but they'll also be kind enough to slam some banner ads on your site in the process. Unless of course you send them some more cash on top of your registration fee for the priveledge of no banners. I do not own a cc domain, this is what I picked up from reading their site. But I think it's sad. Very sad. - Axe
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lots of unhappy consumers
dnscentral.com has a cool feature. You can change the "registrant" via the web interface. No need to go through all of the crap that NSI makes you do to transfer ownership of a domain to another party WITH the chance of losing it.
Dnscentral uses opensrs for the backend registrar service and they have been in the business of registering domains and providing other domain services like forwarding and name service for a few years now--they have experience in this field and that's what counts to me.
(I registered some domains with them back when they used NSI and like the forwarding features, and have registered one domain since they switched to opensrs, domain management is so much easy with the new web interface)
http://www.openreward.com is the address.
One tyhing you seem to be forgetting is that, once you have an account with them, you can use their email interface like NSI is trying to phase out. :)
All I have to do is send a specially formatted and PGP signed email to them (Just like Nominet).
of course, I have this is all script driven so registering a domain is now only a five minute task
I`ve had some difficulty recently with easyspace.co.uk: registering is nice and cheap, but it`s only after you`ve forked out that you discover that if you`re not hosting your site on their servers, they don`t want to know. I`ve had no reply to several emails asking them about changing the DNS to point to my computer, and a friend was forced to pay for a mailbox service he didn`t want.
However, I can`t seem to find any other registrars in the UK that are at all decent. Either they`re incredibly pricey, or they`re entirely geared around website hosting and don`t even mention the possibility that a domain name can point to your own computer (or even have anything other than www. on the front of it). As it happens, I want the domain name for more than just a website, so even if I could afford it, a web hosting package is no good to me.
Still, I registered the domain name with easyspace, and now I can`t figure out how to get my hands on it at all. Which is more than slightly annoying.
it seems quite a number of slashdot users register a significant amount of domains. why not ask all those registrars mentioned above for a discount? they would get a ton of business and we would get a better price ... (and providing constructive criticism how they can improve their service would be thrown in for free)
... sorry if someone already brought this up
note: i admit I got bored by the growing amount of crap in this discussion and didn't check all the posts
I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe what I believe is right. G.W. Bush
I have lost the reference, but I recently saw a
new rule (I believe that it went into effect in
December), that said you can change registrars
and not lose time already paid for.
So, for example, if you made the mistake of
registering a name at NSI yesterday, you can
change to any other registrar, and they have to
serve you for the full two years without any
extra charge (you need to buy at least one
additional year at the new registrar).
As soon as I saw this, I changed ALL of my domains
IMMEDIATELY away from NSI. I encourage others to
do likewise.
Ok, but that's not really an answer. That only explains what happens if Joker, specifically, dies.
But the vastly more useful question is in the general sense. What happens if I register with [Reg Company X] and [Reg Company X] goes belly up?
ie: if Joker goes under, then you say CORE takes over. So what happens if CORE goes under? Does someone else take over? So what happens if you follow it up the chain to the point where there's no-one to take it over?
Or, assume you're with a company (not Joker, obviously) that doesn't do it "through" anyone else? What happens if they go kaput?
It's a fine line between trolling and karma-whoring... and I think you just crossed it.
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- Sean
It's a fine line between trolling and karma-whoring... and I think I just crossed it.
- Sean
Say it, brutha!
w0rd!
I used domainvalet.com. They require their banner ad on top, but otherwise they do free domain parking, or they give you 5 Megs for your own web page. The only cost is the $70 for 2 years with internic.
For instance :
http://www.this-spot.com
Not a thing that you just posted is even remotely correct!
Thank you! It's hard to be that thorough, but I do try.
You should have read the whole thread before posting. Not that I haven't made the same mistake far too often
--80md
I've looked through all the comment here on /. and as far as I can see the best option is DomainMonger.com for the actual DNS registration ($ 17 a year) GraniteCanyon.com for free primary and secondary DNS hosting (they are a not-for-profit organisation). However I cant find a good Email/URL forwarding service that doesn't cost too much. Any pointers ?
HTTP://WWW.DISCOUNTDOMAINREGISTRY.COM I noticed that their prices were only $14.99 ! I have just registered 14 domains and it only took me about 5 min. for the whole thing. They have a really easy control panel and great support!
I LOVE dotster.com. I paid $15 flat for a domain, no Network Solutions fee like InterNIC tacks on. I think they are now $25 flat fee for a year, and you get discounts and stuff. I think you cna get a name for 10 years for like $150. The site charges NO fees for moving URLs, and you have a web based login, where you can manage your accounts, change where your URL is pointing to, etc. I have friends who used InterNIC who have switched to Dotster for both price and ease of use. In otherwords, unlike InterNIC, you do not have to spend time on the phone with them simply to get a domain relocated.
I totally agree with Davidlane http://www.discountdomainregistry.com is still the best and cheapest out there. They have: -Instant domain registrations -Instant domain updates -Real time web-based domain management -24/7 Technical support -Free domain parking -Up to 67 characters -Name changes are free -Easy web-based modifications THEY KICK ___ !! :-)
I registered with them last year, no problemo and service has been flawless.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
- W. Wriston, former Citibank CEO
NU charges you every time you need to change your contact information or dns info. you are PUNISHED for keeping your information up to date! WTF?
funny...these type of posts almost always come from ACs. Can't you come up with something better? Oh, wait. Then you wouldn't have posted anonymously... ...consider the source
"You done taken a wrong turn."
-Bill McKinney, in Deliverance
If you notice, each post has a #X number. For instance your post had a header of: Re:OpenSRS (Score:1) by yetisalmon on Sunday February 27, @09:41PM EST (#279) with #279 as a link to: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/27/13325 7&cid=279 If you select this link it will only display your post and those on that thread below it. You could bookmark it to just see that post. Hope this helps! Firefalcon (to lazy to log in...)
Guys thanks for the tip - I just used them and they were great - I am able to update my name servers in real time!!
Oops - I'll try again...
3 257&cid=279
If you notice, each post has a #X number.
For instance your post had a header of:
Re:OpenSRS (Score:1)
by yetisalmon on Sunday February 27, @09:41PM EST (#279)
with #279 as a link to:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/02/27/13
If you select this link it will only display
your post and those on that thread below it.
You could bookmark it to just see that post.
You could also use your browser to save the page in that link, or select the text and copy it to
a file locally.
Hope this helps!
Firefalcon (to lazy to log in...)
The company i work for is an opensrs affiliate, it seems to work perfectly (although i'm not sure about renewals yet.... was in the test environment but i didn't see it in the live environment, not a problem for another 10 months at least but...)
I'd give you the url to go buy domains through us, but i'm not happy w/ the prices so i won't advertise ($25 is way too much if it costs us $10)
Need a Catering Connection
I've used register.com. They did a good job, no problems. They responded to my questions (email) in a matter of a couple of hours...
They also supplied the DNS servers (primary/secondary) for me without any extra charge, and let me configure my DNS entries over the web.
I recommend them highly!
Like I've said in the past you can't beat us for the average guy who just wants to register one or two domain names...
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
www.npsis.com
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
www.haidacarver.com
Wow - guys thanks for the tip.....I can't believe we received such a low price for the domain registration....How do they do it????
I've had great success with a company called easydns.com. You register your domain name with them, and they pass it through to Network Solutions who bills you. The great thing is they provide your DNS services for you, so you don't have to run BIND. I need this because I want to run my own servers off my cable modem connection (which is not static IP) with a real domain name. If I reboot my machine and my IP changes, I can update it at the easydns.com website and it will propogate in as little as an hour (you have full control over your SOA values, and I put my TTL as low as an hour.)
It is also a good service for people who don't want to run BIND but also don't want to call their ISP tech supp each time they want an A record added or MX record changed. Check it out - it's $25 per year per domain, on top of the $35/year netsol charges.
On top of all this, easydns runs their site using Linux / PHP! They also have a very clean, easy to use interface with NO AD BANNERS! How can you not support a company like that!
[BTW I am not affiliated at all with them, I just like to promote goodness when I find it]
Twice today my phone rang unnecessarily -- BulkRegister was vocally spamming me. I was called by some brainless little twit that had never heard of Tucows, and didn't seem to be at all interested in my protests.
:)
So, looking for a registrar? Don't use Tucows. Instead, put your energies into making a telephone RBL.
Bah. Don't use *BulkRegister* -- use Tucows! Preview doesn't help the stupid. :)
About them sharing my e-mail and other information with spammers (the following paragraph was several screens into an e-mail that had a lot of stuff about public availability of the WHOIS database):
"You can, however, opt out of our bulk resale information lists if you so choose so. At this time the option is not available from our website, but should be soon. Until then please email us the account names and domain names that you want removed from our lists and we will mark your account to reflect this."
About their home page crashing my browser (consistently):
"Upgrade. :) No really, we know that there are compatibility issues with older versions of web browsers. Our site uses some VB scripting which I don't believe is supported in Navigator 4.0 or IE 4.0 or lower. I know that's not a good excuse, but its the only one I got."
Positives: They did e-mail me back
Negatives: I will not use their service while these two statements are true. They rather bother me. -------
On the other hand, I sent e-mail with two very general questions, about privacy and cost, to NPSIS, and someone there looked up my website from my .sig, found my phone number, and called me. He not only answered my questions, but they have already changed their web site to make the things I mentioned more clear. Of course, this is sales, not tech support, and they seem like a fairly new company, but I am greatly encouraged and plan to try them out.
I totally agree that NSI sux. I work for a large web hosting company, and we unfortunately deal with them for most domain registrations we process. :^(
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As for changing the registrar for your domain, the Network Solutions site actually has instructions on how to change *to* them: http://www.networksolutions.com/catalog/domainnam
You should be able to get similar information from your registrar of choice. Register.com has their version at: http://www.register.com/faq/transfer-register.cgi
HTH
Your Friend,
Your Friend,
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Ok, I registered my domain with DomainMonger now I would like to redirect that domain name to a
webpage I already have set up.
It appears companies like dnscentral.com will
do this for $19/year + $20 setup. (though
they offer lots of other services I don't want)
Any other suggestions including:
1.) Cheap
2.) Good Policies
3.) company which uses free software?
For the moment, I'd rather not set up OpenSRS.
Thank you kindly for your constructive suggestions.
-Chris
Guys I tried out www.discountdomainregistry.com for only 1 of my domains this morning and it's awesome! I have already registered 33 more this evening(and going)! I even tried a whois on networksolutions.com and I was also on their system. I also found that e-mails for my DNS questions were answered almost the second I pressed send :-)
I hope others will avoid the problem I'm going through now.
I registered a domain with Easyspace on February 27. The credit card charge showed up on my account the next day. About March 2nd, I saw my domain reported buy WHOIS, with Easyspace for Technical, Zone and DNS, and my information for the billing contact only.
I contacted Easyspace to change the Technical, Zone and DNS. They told me I had to contact Network Solutions for any domain changes. Of course, Network Solutions refuses to do anything for you if you didn't register through them.
I've tried four times to correct this problem with Easyspace. The only responses I've received look like something auto-generated. I haven't seen anything to convince me that a human has even read any of the e-mail I've sent.
So, the domain I paid to get is locked up by Easyspace. If I want to keep it, I'll have to pay them for hosting. I'm not about to do that now!
Needless to say, I'm disputing the charge with my credit card company, and pondering what other actions I can take. Suggestions?