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From: svlug-request@svlug.org Subject: svlug Digest, Vol 160, Issue 1 To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:14:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:14:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: [svlug] Registrars? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0208091313260.28712-100000@tux.herlein.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 1 Well, Registrar.com got bought by Verisign, who has proven to be a royal pain in the rear this week... and since I am pondering creating a new domain for a project, I'm curious who else is still in the registrar market. Can anyone recommend a good registrar? === Date: 09 Aug 2002 13:19:52 -0700 From: Uriah Welcome <precision@devrandom.net> To: Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? Greg Herlein wrote: > Well, Registrar.com got bought by Verisign, who has proven to be > a royal pain in the rear this week... and since I am pondering > creating a new domain for a project, I'm curious who else is > still in the registrar market. > > Can anyone recommend a good registrar? I've been using GKG (http://www.gkg.net/) for some time now without a problem. I have friends that swear by them.. $10/year, can't go wrong. === Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:01:47 -0700 From: svlug@gory.org To: Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com> Cc: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com> wrote: > Well, Registrar.com got bought by Verisign, who has proven to be > a royal pain in the rear this week... and since I am pondering > creating a new domain for a project, I'm curious who else is > still in the registrar market. > > Can anyone recommend a good registrar? https://www.godaddy.com $8.95 a year. === Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 15:02:09 -0700 From: "Daevid Vincent" <daevid@daevid.com> To: "'Greg Herlein'" <gherlein@herlein.com>, <svlug@lists.svlug.org> Subject: RE: [svlug] Registrars? > Can anyone recommend a good registrar? http://www.register.com/ === Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: ikluft@thunder.sbay.org (Ian Kluft) To: gherlein@herlein.com (Greg Herlein) Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? >From: Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com> >Well, Registrar.com got bought by Verisign, who has proven to be >a royal pain in the rear this week... and since I am pondering >creating a new domain for a project, I'm curious who else is >still in the registrar market. > >Can anyone recommend a good registrar? I moved all my domains from Verisign/NetSoil to Domain Discover. I recently finished moving the last of them there. I found them a couple years ago through a domain buyer's guide that unfortunatley has since shut down. They compared registrars based on price, service, and registration agreements. For example, with Verisign/NetSoil, you can register the domain. But they own it according to the agreement. I decided that was an important criteria to fix. But it eliminated all the most inexpensive registrars at the time. I won't try to say that the one I found is the only good one - undoubtedly there are others. But those are the criteria you should look at when selecting a registrar. Domain Discover ( http://www.domaindiscover.com/ ) looked to me like one of the best by the criteria... * Almost everything can be done by self-service through their web interface * Their web site behaves well with Mozilla and Netscape. (No Windoze-only "feature" restrictions.) * Good support - they stake their reputation on it (and I can confirm they're responsive for the few times I needed help) * You own your domains according to their agreement * The price is reasonable, a little less than Verisign/NetSoil. * During a domain transfer, they tell you when things happen and status changes along the way. One thing to watch for when transferring domains from Verisign/NetSoil is that they'll send an e-mail to the domain's administrative contact asking for confirmation. Read it carefully because there's a response code hidden deep inside the message that you must MANUALLY PASTE INTO THE SUBJECT of your e-mail reply to them. And the reply must have a From address which matches their record of the admin contact. Even once you comply with that, they might reject the transfer claiming they never got a response from the admin contact. (I even had some cases that they never sent the confirmation message and rejected it when they got no response.) Re-initiate the transfer and keep trying - it eventually works. This almost seemed intentional because all their delaying factors came into play at once when I transferred thunder.com and thunder.net away from them, as if they wanted to keep them. It could be explained by incompetence but the conincidence is suspicious. It's a relief to be rid of Verisign/NetSoil. I never want to do business with them again. === Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 23:44:59 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> To: Uriah Welcome <precision@devrandom.net> Cc: Greg Herlein <gherlein@herlein.com>, svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:14, Greg Herlein wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good registrar? I've been pleased with EasyDNS who sit atop OpenSRS. === Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:29:23 -0700 From: Drew Bertola <drew@drewb.com> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:44:59PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:14, Greg Herlein wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a good registrar? > > I've been pleased with EasyDNS who sit atop OpenSRS. I like EasyDNS too, but they're not quite as cheap as some of the others. Last time I renewed a domain, they were at $25.00/yr. Has it gone down? === Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 09:12:13 -0700 From: J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> To: svlug@lists.svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] Registrars? On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 02:29:23 -0700 Drew Bertola <drew@drewb.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:44:59PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote: >> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 13:14, Greg Herlein wrote: > I like EasyDNS too, but they're not quite as cheap as some of the > others. Last time I renewed a domain, they were at $25.00/yr. Has it > gone down? Not that I've noticed (haven't checked). Then again you get considerably more for your $25 than you get from a straight registrar: -- Full DNS hosting -- Slick web interface to your zone files -- Unlimited web edits of your zone files -- Multiple globally distributed name servers -- Secondary MX service for any domains run thru EasyDNS That's a bit better than just getting an entry in a gTLD root name server. ===