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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
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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 :)
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.
Get a clue. The government & acadamia actually paid for and developed the internet.
You REALLY don't want to see that!!!
Cheers,
Perrin.
-Perrin.
Now I want you to go in that bag and find my lightsaber. It's the one that says bad mother-fscker on it.
Have people here used them and found that things really work and work well?
>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?
JulyenI 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.
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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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
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.
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?
Parking is free.
Transfers are free.
And, they have the best domain management system I have seen.
Highly recommended!
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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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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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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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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Damn, I post an interesting comment, and BAM it gets -1 just because it's from "Troll Boy".
You know you want to give me -1 Troll
Are you just doing this because you're in a bad mood and what to shoot your mouth off or something?
Look up the history of the internet, why don't you? You'll find the Arpanet. It was used for years by just the government and universities. Later on, the web was built on top of, or maybe as a subset of, the internet. But that's basically an interface, nothing more.
The government was largely responsible for funding and building the intital "internet", and then basically passed the ball on to other entities. To deny that they had any involvement is rather ludicrous.
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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Much Love,
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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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You might want to double check your own facts moron. The internet was under construction in the 70's. Appartently, you've never heard of a thing called Arpanet, which was the original internet, and was created by the gov't and universities. The mid-80's was when companies actually started to get on board.
Maybe you should check your own facts before shooting your mouth off.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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i dont trust joker.com. they dont seem to be competant.
Is this a troll, or do you really have a reason to not trust them? My personal experience has been wholly satisfactory, though admittedly, I've not had a problem that's really tested the relationship. But the fact that you're posting anonymously coupled with the fact that you don't actually say WHY you don't trust them makes your comment completely useless...
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.
>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)
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?
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I'm just wondering, because if I ever get a static IP link, a little vanity domain name might be nice.
-Joe
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?
wow! An intellegent troll!!! I'm amazed! :)
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
actually joker is rather competant
i've bought 3 domains from them using
my own dns servers. service has been
simple to get working, that is simple
once you figure out their wierd page
layout.
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...
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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.
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
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>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.
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.
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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
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
Do 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.
umm, Beta tapes have (had, I dono if new advances in vhs tapes have happened or what) better quality, but the reason they lost out is that they are shorter. You usually had to rent 2 beta tapes for a 2 hour movie vs. one vhs. Consumers are normal people, and therefore, morons. However, standards groups are usually suits, and therefore also morons. Personally, I dont really give a shit who creates the standard, so long as its open. (chk out OpenSRS.org $10 domains, and you have direct access to your corenic account. )
C is hard to learn, and takes brainpower to code in, but you end up with a much better product than VB. I agree vb is better for your normal Luser wanting a semi-working database interface on a 'doze box, and who doesnt want to pay for or put up with a real hacker, but it's not a real language. It's a toy for acidemics, lusers and other morons.
Perl has often been described as a VB for unix. I think this is a somewhat accurate comparison, I mean aside from the fact that perl is much more stable, and faster, it's still a normal guys version of c (and if you cant learn perl, you are terminally stupid. It's even easier than VB. I've coded in both.)
I think one constant is that people are baisically evil. This is what makes the free market system work better than communisem. The free market system relies on everyone takeing everything they can, and communisemn assumes that people will work for the good of all.
The problem is that when you get a bunch of guys in one place, without any power checks other than eachother, they tend to look for other, weaker bunches of people to beat/kill/rape/harass/etc... The clan movement is a good example of this. 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. The nice and/or nonviolent guy always gets reamed in this situation. Hard. I know. I used to be the nice guy. I'm not anymore. This is the problem with the pack. They only attack those who can not or will not fight back effectively, exactly the people who do should be protected, and usually loose interest at the first sign that their target is capable of inflicting even minor bodily damage in return, unless they are angry, or drunk, or otherwise inebreated.
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
'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)
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
you cant honestly be that stupid. Compuserve and AOL createing the internet? You need to find your crack dealer and shoot him. He must have sold you some bad shit.
ARPAnet was started in 1969 by the military with the help of universities. This was the beginning of the internet. It switched to TCP/IP in 1983. CompuServe and AOL have never been that significant in provideing backbone. They pretty much just provide a cheap and easy way for people to connect.
Did you say netscape created the internet? dude, do you realize that netscape is a BROWSER, mearly sending http commands and parseing the resulting HTML? something I can do with a telnet client with a scrollback buffer, albeit quite a bit slower? The internet was created on a bunch of PDP-11's. Way before sun, Cisco, or the totally irrelivant Microsoft. Sun and Cisco have made a good portion of the hardware running the internet now,but microsoft is not a significant player in any market but the client (browser... like i said, most people with a ref book and 2 brain cells can do it with a telnet client, if they wanted to.) The founders of sun and Cisco would be nothing if not for acidemia. If it wasn't for BSD, solaris wouldn't be here. and the freaking cisco routers where created at a university! Gah. DARPA (the military) funded the implamentation of TCP/IP in BSD (at a university), that was later taken by SUN, and pretty much everyone else. TCP/IP is a DARPA protocoll. the goverment has fucked up some shit, but give credit where credit is due. they made the internet, long before Sun, Microsoft, Netscape,Cisco, or even myself was even a glimmer in somone's eye. get _your_ facts straight, redneck.
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/
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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. :)
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,
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Thanks captain.
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