What Alternative Domain Registrants are out There? 145
Zigg asks: "With the story on NSI's webmail "service" and the rant I posted therein, I got a little more information with regards to alternative registrars that have apparently been around a few months now, thanks to ICANN. I was hoping that Slashdot readers could contribute stories of their experiences with some of these guys, to see if any of them really are better than NSI or are just worth checking out because they're not NSI?"
Re:Free domain name... (?) (Score:1)
You agree that we can advertise and operate promotions by way of banner advertisements on your web space at no charge.
We may, on one month's notice, introduce a charge for the service. If we introduce a charge you will be able to terminate your use of the service before you become liable to make any payment to us.
The domain name remains free only if you remain a user of our service. In the event that you are not still a user of our service on the second anniversary of the domain name being registered, Nominet UK may invoice you for the applicable renewal fee at the appropriate rate.
In the event that you wish to remove the domain to another service provider we will charge you an administration fee to effect the transfer, currently £94 (inc.VAT).
Small print indeed....
I'll second this! (Score:1)
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
As a side note, I register 100+ domains a month with NSI.
Went through the process of registering a domain with them and found they don't even give you the option of specifying your DNS servers. I thought that was odd as a domain is useless without DNS. I went to their web update form, logged in with the account I had just created, and noticed the reason they didn't ask is because they assumed I wanted them to provide DNS for the domain. So, I click on the change DNS servers button to find the message "You are not authorized to make changes to this item."
Very Interesting and also starting to get wary of these guys. Poke around the web site for about 10 minutes and find they don't even list a phone # to contact them! Now I am starting to get even more wary. I go to their tech support page where they claim that if you fill out their form they will get back to you within 24 hours. Sent a message humbly requesting they change the domain to my DNS servers. 72 hours pass, no response. My thought now is "what a bunch of scumbags, they stole my domain!" I start doing queries and looking things up and find that they registered the domain with themselves as all the contacts! Now I go back to the tech support page and sent a slightly more heated message to them demanding that they release the domain to me. I start procedures with AMEX to dispute the charge on my card. About a week and a half later I finally get a response from them that they have changed the DNS servers. However, I still cannot make changes via their web form and they still list themselves as the contacts on the domain.
This outfit is very shady and VERY clueless. Their customer support is non-existent. NSI makes some mistakes and you may have to wait on hold for 20 minutes, but at least you can talk to a person. Its also fairly easy to escalate to a clueful person, such as Chuck Gomes. NSI has been doing registrations since the beginning. I will be sticking with them for all registrations.
Register.com (Score:3)
They use the same prices as NSI, but their service is much better:
- They provide free DNS services, but you are still able to run your own DNS servers. (A combination is also possible)
- You can update your domain settings trough a web interface and updates are therefore almost instant (and not three months like NSI).
- Tech support is very knowledgeable and usually responds within a few hours (even outside office hours!!).
The only bad thing I have to say is that their upstream provider had some connectivity problems a few weeks ago and because their free DNS servers are on the same network my whole domain did not work. However, these issues seem to be resolved and of course you are free to add one of your own DNS servers to theirs.
NetWiz (Score:1)
Easy to use (Score:1)
Melbourne IT (Score:1)
But then again I am a Melbournian, so I may be biased
My sister registered a domain through NSI - they screwed up the delegation and ignored three months of attempts to fix it.
Re:Email hosting? (Score:1)
Good register.com experiences (Score:1)
They do cost the same as NSI (70$ for two years), which isn't the cheapest, but isn't that bad.
-Seth
If their web hosting business is anything like.. (Score:2)
9 months ago I asked if I could add a delegated subdomain to one of the domains I was hosting there. After 5 or 6 e-mails of clarification (they couldn't figure out what I was asking), their answer was "yep. just let us know."
3-4 months later I asked again, just to be ABSOLUTELY sure they could do this before I went out and bought hardware to act as name server for the delegated subdomain, etc. I've had experience in 2 other past instances where they've said "yep" one day and "sorry you were misinformed" the next, so I felt it crucial that I be totally certain that they understood what I was asking and could do what I needed. Again, their response (after another 5-6 clarifications) was "yep. no problem. just let us know."
So a couple of weeks ago I say "OK, I'm all set up on this end, please add this to your name servers.."
"Uhh, sorry for the past misinformation, but we can't do that."
WHAT?? I just spent several hundred dollars going on information you'd explicitely given me in the past, and now you can't even offer me the courtesy of a single line in my domain's zone files? They wouldn't budge. As soon as DNS fully updates for all of my domains, I'm cancelling my accounts.
They even advised me not to post copies of the e-mail correspondence I've had with their techs on a web page. Embarrassed? I do think so. Then they started talking about slander and libel and how they take that sort of thing very seriously. Hell, all I wanted was to post verbatim copies of the e-mails. I think they speak for themselves nicely.
*Horrible* tech support in general, 2-3 day tech support runs. Their *phone* support isn't even staffed by the techs that answer your e-mails. You can't ever contact them by phone in the event you need something resolved quickly.
I should not have to be suspicious (and correct in my suspicion) that the tech that answered my e-mail thought I meant "Perl" when I said "mod_perl."
I have had nothing but bad experiences with Alabanza.
Now, of course, their domain registration services might be operated completely differently, but somehow I doubt it...
3-day DNS updates are perfectly normal.. (Score:2)
If you change your name server settings for your domain, it's just another DNS change (but at a top level) and will require 2-3 days to fully propogate.
If you know in advance you're about to make a major change, sometimes it helps to adjust the TTL values in your name server a few days beforehand so that things refresh more quickly. You then avoid the lengthy propogation period.
I've never used Register.Com, but it is a bit unfair to pin this on crappy service from them.
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:2)
There has been none. Its a finite physical space, or address that must be unique. That may be why the price of land in areas, such as San Jose, are so high. Just like TLD's, computers have an affinity to give each item unique addresses.
I was too late to get attaway.com, so I am happy with an org. With the current trend of sue happy people in the USA (the US seems to have an inordinate amount of control over the internet,) I'm sure I'll find someone of my last name trying to assert rights over the address I have chosen.
Last names cause conflicts in the telephone book too. My mom has a business in her maiden last name in Kansas City (I won't mention it here, because credit card companies use maiden names like passwords!) Its not a popular last name, but there happened to be another business in the city of that name. She had the first entry in the telephone book.
I'm aware of other Attaway's on the internet, musicians (my sister is one,) teachers, scientists, and one Attaway-Electronics beat me to getting a trademark.
People and nations go to war over land. I'm sure that attitude will infect the internet too. Hopefully there will be enough productive discussion to cure this ill.
There is no real competition (Score:2)
Thus, the only real competition is in billing and customer service. Given NSI's track record on these matters, the "alternative" registrars have a wide-open opportunity to do better, and I think this is a good thing. But the fact that NSI retains the monopoly on the database itself suggests that we're not going to see fundamental improvements any time soon.
Pacific "flag of convenience" registry (Score:1)
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Re:Register.com (Score:1)
Re:Don't register in US (Score:1)
Re:Sacrifice-the-lamb agreements (Score:1)
to know which company to go with. Price, quality, etc. - post the details. It will help us all."
Ok, here ya go... my company recently upgraded bandwidth, our old provider couldn't handle what we were doing, we changed our DNS to a new company through NIS. This has been over a month now, and our DNS is _still_ pointing to the old servers. I've been sending an email per day to NIS with absolutely no response at all. Nothing. This is service? No, this is bullshit -- and there's nothing I can do. We can't receive email (the MX records are still pointing to the old provider, and we're doing our own mail in-house now but our old provider has dropped us) people can't get to our web-site (for similar reasons) and all in all nothing is working except being able to browse, etc. Anyone have any idea what I can do in this situation?
Email Forwarding for an entire domain? (Score:1)
I have a registered domain, say myfamily.com; I don't have a permanent connection to the net, with a static IP and 24/7 reliable equipment, so I need a company to host the domain, which would not need web server space. I would like to be able to set up forwarding rules member@myfamily.com and member's actual ISP address; no email store & forward involved at the company hosting my domain, just an easily configured forwarding service.
Does anybody know a company that would do it at a reasonable cost?
Anarchy in the TLD (Score:1)
Does anyone know what I'm talking about here? Could someone please point me to it?
thanks,
Hamish
Re:Free domain name... (?) (Score:1)
Technically difficult (Score:1)
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Whois servers (slightly off-topic) (Score:1)
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Re:England / Sweden Info too (Score:1)
You can get free .co.uk domains with freenetname [freenetname.co.uk]. Since Nominet reduced the fees for members to 5 UKP, all hosting companies offering .uk domains have dropped their prices incredibly, resulting in a free isp that gives you free web space, free connection and a free domain. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
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alternet? (Score:1)
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Re:Foreign TLDs? (Score:1)
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Re:Home town company (Score:2)
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Re:Register.com (Score:1)
Combinations are *not* possible. I tried in vain to change the 1st nameserver but not the second, but they refused to process this. They will not host just the secondary DNS. It's all or nothing.
The web interface seems pretty cool though, and the response times for support have been great in my case.
Re:Sacrifice-the-lamb agreements (Score:1)
That language, in turn, has been very much shaped by the ICANN discussions - see the ICANN website [icann.org] for the details.
I like joker.com (Score:2)
Considering their prices (DM80/USD$40 for the first 2 years) they are a no-frills provider, so you'll have to take care of the DNS hosting, etc, yourself.
however, at least I don't have to worry about my information being 'owned' by NIC.
Anyway, for .com, .net, or .org, I say go with joker.com.
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
Andrew G. Feinberg
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:1)
Then I probably would offer an email forwarding service to other similarly-named folks. I guess having an unusual name does have its advantages sometimes (although malarky.com and
I like the idea of a register of family-name domains - could get a bit big though!
Rgistering on CoreNIC: A how-to (Score:1)
What do you get in return? Cheaper registration ($60/two years), real customer service, and an explicit antispam policy.
--Tom
Re:Foreign TLDs? (Score:1)
I dumped jean-michel.com in favor of jean.nu, even though the suffix is much less well known -- the difference in service between the folks at .nu and NSI was that significant.
Re:One word... TLDNS (Score:1)
Hint: Now, split the database into 26 different databases and use the last letter to know which to use.
I have always found the
Alejo.
Re:nope (Score:1)
Alejo.
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names: MAILBANK (Score:1)
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
We stick with NSI for now, we register ~40 domains a month and they do great.
TLD's - suggestion and recommendation (Score:1)
Suggestion though, stick to your country's TLD - I'm in the UK so 99% of the domains I register for myself or .uk's. It helps people figure out where I am, add to the fact Nominet just plain rock when it comes to domain name registration :-)
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:1)
As an aside, does this not count as domain name squatting? Purchasing a domain name for the intent of selling (or in this case renting) it later?
Just a thought...
Home town company (Score:2)
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Re:TLD's - suggestion and recommendation (Score:1)
The company I work for is registered with Nominet. To register a domain, we fill in an e-mail form, PGP sign it and send it to their 'automaton'. Five minutes later, we get an automatic confirmation that the name is in their database and available to be replicated throughout their nameservers. The whole process usually take 1-2 hours.
Even better is the wrapper script I've written arounf the mail bit that means that I basicayyly input what name we want, what it's for and then our PGP passphrase. You cannot get any easier or quicker.
Needless to say, modifications and transfers are just as easy. NSI, register.com and just about every other registration service I have seen can learn a lot from Nominet!
Re:One word... TLDNS (Score:3)
Because the database is split up into smaller components the search is faster than it would be if there was no categorisation.
Strangely this means that the most obscure top levels should resolve fastest...
Back to your point if we didn't have any structure and anybody could register a top level domain then our Internet would be practicaly unusable. Besides you would proabably find that you would be responsible for the authorative resolution of your
Now what is this TLDNS stuff? The web link you gave me doesn't seem to really explain what it does and I'm hardly one to blindly install software I download to find out what it does.
PS I did echo "hmm" >
hmm
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:1)
Is a name a property right? (Score:3)
{humor on}
News Flash: The McDonald clan descended on the embattered hamburger chain waving haggis and yelling war cries, claiming the appropriation of their proud Scottish ancestry by a burger flipping clown was an insult to their heritage and the direct cause of the 75% unemployment rate in the internet economy. PR spokeman declinced to comment noting that kilt-wearing assistants would lead to an immediate decline in sales
Switch to Hospital Bedside: Expectant mother
The conflict is that NSI is wanting to act simulatneous roles of registrar (usually government fixed-fee recording service), data developer (in holding onto its yellow pages database for perhaps advertising purposes) and judge/jury in resolving name conflicts (with associated legal vigorish). There are specific reasons why land property rights have evolved separate functional groups as it has been found to be a workable solution for the last 500 odd years. Asking a bunch of companies to divvy up a name space limited by the number of recognisable English words of 7 characters or less (let's face it, most people can't remember much more than 1-2 syllables) is a sure way to degrade the language (yeah, invent more useless buzzwords). I expect a patent any day for adding new letters to the alphabet
LL
another vote for register.com (Score:2)
There's a sponsorship agreement between The Public DNS Service and register.com. If you're going to use register.com and might use the Public DNS Service, follow one of the links from the Public DNS Service to register.com so they get credit (and hopefully money) for the referral.
England / Sweden Info too (Score:1)
If anyone has a recommendation for the best way to reserve a domain from the UK or Sweden that wouldbe appreciated. The problem is that someone in the UK will be paying for the domain, but I want to be listed as billing contact to make the future payments.
I'm looking for the best price I can find (of course) and hopefully the possibility to pay by cheque (UK) or Postgiro (SE). I will be hosting the domain on a friend's server so it's simply name reservation I am looking for.
Thanks in advance for any tips.
Re:Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:1)
I don't believe there is any etiquette involved with this procedure but a company called http://www.mailbank.com has registered almost all last names of British origin as dot net.
They sell email addresses and subdomains. Myself and several friends have tried to register domains only to find them all taken by Mailbank
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Whois Question & foreign Top-level recommendation (Score:1)
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
I asked tech support and after they manually added a record of my nameserver in the root database I was able to add the server.
If you do not believe it: go and have a look at one of my domains, for example woudt.org
> set type=ns
> woudt.org
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
woudt.org nameserver = DNS4.REGISTER.COM
woudt.org nameserver = CYPHERPUNKS.AI
woudt.org nameserver = DNS3.REGISTER.COM
Authoritative answers can be found from:
DNS4.REGISTER.COM internet address = 209.67.50.254
CYPHERPUNKS.AI internet address = 209.88.68.47
DNS3.REGISTER.COM internet address = 209.67.50.253
Re:Sacrifice-the-lamb agreements (Score:1)
Re:Don't register in US (Score:1)
On the first of Feb 1999, NSI transfered my domain Londontimes.com to The Times.
The Times got someone to fake me and forward a false RNCA ( Registrant Name Change Agreement) form to NSI. NSI then transfered the ownership of the domain.
So I was essentially robbed.
Take a look at what The Times is doing with my domain now http://www.LondonTimes.com
Everytime I emailed a NSI official about this issue, they told me that someone in the Business Dept was looking at the matter.
But I still have not heard anything from them
Heck, they have been looking at the issue for 3 months now.
Why did I register Londontimes.com ? I don't know,
there was a Times in London. But isn't there a London in Canada and other countries ?
Anyway:
http://www.Joker.com sounds like a good option.
Peace...
Re:One word... TLDNS (Score:1)
Instead of the limited cost of registering a name with the few standard extensions, we would need to register every possible combination to protect the names we have.
www.microsoft
www.microsoft.com
www.microsoft.corp
www.microsoft.inc
www.microsoft.corporation
www.microsoft.incorporated
www.microsoft.word
www.microsoft.excel
...
The registrars would get rich collecting fees from companies trying to protect their names from misuse.
And don't think for one minute that companies like microsoft wouldn't try to scoop up the www.microsoft.sucks, etc., names to ensure they are not given to anyone else...
Dave
Re:Check out Nameit (Score:1)
NO MORE WORRYING ABOUT AN EMAIL ADDRESS BEING ACCCESSIBLE!!!!!!!!!
WHOOPIE!
This just makes me so happy, I can't stand it.
Re:Register.Com (Score:1)
I have a DNS of my own sitting on a BSD box here at my office, but there was no nead to even throwing my new Zone into the DNS.. Register.com handled -EVERYTHING- for me.
They have such a simple interface in managing your domain name, even the most stressed novice could figure it out. (Where where these guys 2 years ago!!!)
I recomend them to anyone that wants a no-hassle deal in setting up a domain name. I have read earlier that Joker.com is a beat cheaper.. but I don't shirk one bit in paying the extra 30 $USD for great service.
BTW, you can redirect your domain to sit on another DNS if you choose.. but it is all handled through there Web interface.. NO MORE EMAIL TAG NSI!!!!!
Tonic. (Score:1)
The differance between dealing with tonic for my
Re:I like joker.com (Score:1)
They processed my order within 24 hours and with their web based DNS configurator (I paid extra for Joker to do DNS) my web site was available by name in an additional hour.
register.com (Score:1)
Or so we thought. A few days later, the DNS has reverted from us to another company in texas... register.com was unable to help us, and finally we contacted the people in Texas, and found that they had registered xx.tc two days before we did.
After finally convincing register.com of this fact, they refunded my credit card... but due to lousy exchange rates, (it's a canadian card) I ended up getting gypped nearly $1. Pah.
Despite having lots of issues with NSI
-d
Re:Register.com (Score:1)
I suspect this guy has a boatload of NSI stock or some other financial interest in libelling register.com.
Re:Moving domains (Score:1)
Click here for the not-easily-found page at register.com [register.com] with instructions on transferring a domain to them. Good luck!
Re:Whois servers (slightly off-topic) (Score:1)
Try it out: http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/whois.cgi?query=c lusterfuck.net [geektools.com]
Re:There is no real competition (Score:1)
See Appendix B of the tentative agreement [icann.org].
Re:Register.com (Score:2)
register.com on the other hand has been exemplary. Most changes I can make online, and when I've resorted to customer service (only once, via email) the response was fast and the service good.
I'm considering transferring all my domains to register.com, but that's complicated by the fact that they all use a private mailbox postal address which I cannot easily document belongs to me (I get no bills there, it's not on my license, etc.) Once I find a way to provide documentation that that postal address belongs to me, I'll go ahead and transfer them, even though I lose over a year on several of remaining registration. (You pay again and start the 2 year period over when transferring.)
Anyway, unless you already have a volume relationship with NSI that you're happy with, and especially if you're not going to be registering dozens of domains a year, I can recommend register.com from personal experience.
Free domain names??? (Score:1)
Alternate Domain Registrar (Score:1)
Re:England / Sweden Info too (Score:1)
Actually, the reduction in prices has created a huge rip-off market, where most sellers are selling for a huge amount, or making you pay a lot for a service with many catches (the catches for freenetname are mentioned elsewhere on this page, but they primarily charge you a tonne if you wish to leave their service and keep your domain name - i.e. you aren't the owner of the domain name, the ISP is, and they loan it to you. When you wish to leave their services, they charge you a tonne for you to get it.)
I reckon it is a better idea in the UK to wait a few weeks for the market to calm down following the cheaper Nominet rate, and then check out some of the smaller companies that will be offering more personalised services for not much money.
I rung up one company a couple of days ago, enquiring about registering a domain, and asked them what the standard nominet fee was, and they said £80!. I think it was Virtual Internet. They were selling a no-catches service, yet they were secretly making £75 by preying on people who didn't know about domain registration prices.
Re:Foreign TLDs? (Score:1)
It may be £5 for an ISP that is registered with Nominet (which costs a lot) to register a domain name for someone else, but when you consider that if all you want is a domain name (e.g. to stop someone else getting it) then there are no ways to get it for £5.
Companies have to make a profit somewhere, and then there is VAT on top of it all, then there is the hassle of having to run a Primary and Secondary DNS for the names you register. Then those DNS's have to be connected to the internet 24/7 which costs a lot in the UK, as leased lines cost an absolute bomb compared with the US. ISPs don't offer cheap Domain Name Registration only, they want to get your business for years to come, by tieing you in with webspace or adverts and a lot of other things which are too much hassle to change for most people.
So you can't get a domain name of your own, no strings attached, in the UK for £5.
Re:Anarchy in the TLD (Score:1)
Don't register in US (Score:3)
BTW Does anyone know if it is possible to transfer a domain from a registrar to another one ? I want to leave NSI as soon as possible.
domain names (Score:1)
TLDNS not necessary but useful (Score:1)
Um, no thanks.
The way it is now, NSI has
Remember that the existence of tld's may not be (and isn't) an advantage when it comes to database searching, but it's certainly an advantage when it comes to determining the proper progress of nameserver authority. And that's the sine qua non of DNS - the existence of a proper progression of authorities for any given name.
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Re:www.tinc-org.com provides an alternate root (Score:1)
Sacrifice-the-lamb agreements (Score:3)
1) If you have problems with the credit card, the registar may take a look at the domain name and decide not to register it, even if you can pay them. And if you do, there's a 200-300 $ "reinstatement" fee (pricey for a $35/year contract).
"We will reinstate your domain name registration solely at our discretion, and subject to our receipt of the initial registration or renewal fee and our then-current reinstatement fee, currently set at US$200."
2) They "own" your telephone # and other details:
"You further agree and
acknowledge that we own the following information for those registrations for which we are the registrar:
(a) the original creation date of the registration,
(b) the expiration date of the registration,
(c) the name, postal address, e-mail address, voice telephone number, and where available fax number of the technical
contact, administrative contact, zone contact and billing contact for the domain name registration"
3) A 7 day notice to cancel your domain:
"You also agree that register.com shall have the right in its sole discretion to suspend, cancel, transfer or otherwise modify a
domain name registration upon seven (7) calendar days prior written notice, or at such time as register.com receives a
properly authenticated order from a court of competent jurisdiction"
I find a 200 or 300 $ reinstatement fee quite high (my auto insurance takes a 10% reinstatement fee, and for domain names, it's more than 600%?), and the other details are also quite demanding. Sure, you may argue that they are not likely to enforce it, but that's not the point - the agreement shouldn't be such a sell-your-soul and expect-us-to-cancel-when-we-want deal.
Also interesting is the fact that all the terms and conditions for the various registrars are almost identical, word by word. I think this field still needs a lot of competition.
L.
PS - If you've had good or bad experiences, please post them. A friend of mine is about to register and wants to know which company to go with. Price, quality, etc. - post the details. It will help us all.
Re:Domain Bank sucks the big one! (Score:1)
They have potential, but they need to invest in their own system before I would recommend them.
Re:Whois servers (slightly off-topic) (Score:1)
Re:nope (Score:1)
Every hostname already gets resolved to ip address surely. There's already tons of DNS packets (one day I'll work out what's making my NT box go for wizards.com every time I log in).
The annoying thing currently is how even the root domains are abused. What domain name do I want for my own personal site? I'm not a commercial company (.com / .co.uk), I'm not an oragnisation (.org), I'm not academic (.edu / .ac.uk) and I'm not network related (.net).
I know that here in the UK at least we now have the idea of a 'personal' phone number, and I 'spose that a mobile number is effectively going to be mine and unchanged for the duration, so what should I have for my own personal net presence (that's more memorable than a string of numbers). Maybe I should share with all those unrelated people who happen to have the same surname, or should I have to be part of some on-line community (and then what happens when that community goes bust?).
Erm, well that's got me thinking at least.
Re:Rgistering on CoreNIC: A how-to (Score:1)
And extremely dangerous. If it's a good domain, someone else will snap it up before you do.
Never let a domain expire if you want to keep it.
Re:I want to know how to get a .eg domain (Score:1)
Check out AllWhois.com [allwhois.com] for info on how to register country-code domains.
Following their link, you can find Registration of .eg domains [ise.org.eg] by the Internet Society of Egypt.
Note that many countries impose considerable restrictions on domain registrations (must be a resident or have a local business presence, etc).
Re:domain names (Score:1)
Because ugly sites make more money [useit.com]... and anyways, many of the folks who have good domain names are just hanging on to them for the resale value.
If you send your website visitors off to Allclicks.com [allclicks.com] at 3 cents/click, you'll almost always make more money than you ever would with nice, useful content. Unfortunate, but that's just the way it is with the current economic model...
Re:England / Sweden Info too (Score:1)
Hi,
We can do your
may be aware, the registrars now want payment upfront. So with less than
a week to go, youd better get your freind in England to arrange payment
with us toot sweet
"Have a gorilla?"
"No have one of my monkey's, they're milder" ------ Spike Milligan
drop me an e-mail to nospam@tallbloke.co.uk
Re:True and what a Contrast to NSI going to get th (Score:1)
They even answer the phone and help you straighten out problem over disputed ownership etc.
I can't get sensible automated responses to internics own forms even for something as simple as changing an admin handle.
When are internic going to get their act together?
Re:True and what a Contrast to NSI going to get th (Score:1)
They even answer the phone and help you straighten out problems over disputed ownership etc.
I can't get sensible automated responses to internics own forms even for something as simple as changing an admin handle.
When are internic going to get their act together?
Glad to get that off my chest, thanks all!
Re:England / Sweden Info too (Score:1)
Let the buyer beware.......
Re:Free domain names??? (Score:1)
check out www.dhs.org you can select from
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Re:Register.com (Score:1)
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Domain Etiquette - Family Names (Score:2)
I have a question which I'd like yer opinion on:
What is the proper etiquette for registering your family name with a TLD?
That is, say my name is John Doe. I could register doe.org, and then my email could be john@doe.org. However, what if someone I don't know at all wants to be jane@doe.org? Why should she be denied that priviledge? Is it alright if I let anyone who shares my last name to get email forwarding for free? Or should I leave it alone and become jd@john-doe.org?
Related to this, are there any efforts out there to start a web directory for doing this sort of family-name-registration forwarding-for-free type of activity?
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Re:Register.com (Score:2)
I wrote to customer support at register.com and this is what they had to say about the "hidden fees" claims.
Thank you for your e-mail.
The rumors that you've heard are not true. There are no hidden fees after you've registered your name, we offer free dns transfer and you can get free parking on our servers as long as we are your registrar.
Thank you for using register.com, the first step on the web.
Customer Support
register.com, inc.
http://www.register.com
So, it seems that you were misinformed, and they do offer the services as advertised.
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Register.Com (Score:1)
If anyone's thinking about registering, use them!
My one criticism is that my other domain is stuck in NS clutches, and I don't know how to transfer over to the new service provider. Anyone got any ideas?
James
nope (Score:1)
Re:nope (Score:1)
the way hostnames are resolved today is that a query for www.foobar.com would go to the root server for
If you had a million tld's you'd need a million root servers, and your request for www.foobar.perty would have to be sent to all of them ( instead of a few requests today you send out a million requests )cause you wouldn't have
any hiearchy ( tree structure ).
right now the domain name structure is like a tree with a few root servers (
Moving domains (Score:1)
Is there a safe way wo do this? or am I locked to NS forever?
Anybody tried www.cc? (Score:1)
Register.com Sucks the Big One, but NuNames kicks! (Score:2)
However, registering with NuNames was a wonderful thing. If they nixed their $10 service charge for domain changes, it'd be a perfect deal: $40 for two years! Hells yeah!
Same domain, two services? (Score:1)
oooh! The fun! The havoc!
TLDNS is a mistake (Score:1)
Why should I have to get mycompany.com, mycompany.net, mycompany.cc, mycompany.org... just to prevent my competitors from stealing my web traffic? Should'nt there be ONE www.mycompany?
Free domain name... (?) (Score:2)
This offer is in an experimental / testing phase at the moment and they are planning to begin at the end of this year. You can register .org .com .net names only. I'd say; check it out... You can find this at http://www.namezero.com/default.htm. I allready registered my domain name hoping it will work out.
Re:I like joker.com (Score:1)
www.tinc-org.com provides an alternate root (Score:2)
to subvert the whole system by setting up an
alternet set of root nameservers that point to
the current roots, but also allow them to set
up their own top level domains, e.g. ".sex", etc.
---Eludom
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We are a group of internet users who have decided to try and put an end to the conflict of interest
inherent in having the "root zone" (the list of servers of the top level domains) managed by the
same organization that runs the largest registries.
What We Are Doing
We are currently providing an alternative to the root name servers. These alternative root servers
point to all of the top level domains that the internic currently lists, and also contains additional top
level domains that meet the guidelines we have developed. These are only pointers, the
organizations responsible for the domains themselves remain in control. The service we're
providing is simply a disinterested third party integrating the traditional and independent name
registries.
One word... TLDNS (Score:5)
Everyone is fighting over
www.joe.shmoe
Or for famous corporations...
www.microsoft.inc
Or for specialized products...
www.redhat.linux
WHY WHY WHY is it that ICANN and/or Network Solutions still feels it is necessary to try and group things into categories?
It's all BS. No one respects the categories. A big company like Microsoft is going to have microsoft.com microsoft.net microsoft.org. If you create a
On the other hand, if there ARE no stupid categories, and you can have infinite choice, then companies can register their LEGAL name (like Microsoft, Incorporated is www.microsoft.inc) and I can do get www.microsoft.sucks or whatever else I want. There are simply too many possible domain combinations for TLDNS [tldns.com] (http://www.tldns.com/download/) is trying to accomplish. If we could get major browsers to automatically install TLDNS support then suddenly the Internet would be a whole new world overnight.
- JoeShmoe
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A company I hate to love.... (Score:2)
I've used three alternative registrars for
Concerning stability, register.com is losing money, although like many big
You also need to worry about domain heists, either transferring administrative ownership, or merely redirecting the DNS listings (this is done to successful sites to steal traffic for a while). Some of the "off-brand" registrars initiate changes based solely on a form or e-mail request! Some e-mail back for confirmation, some use encrypted passwords, and so on. NSI, of the four companies I've used, is the only one that offered all those, plus PGP-encrypted change requests. Of course they still have plenty of thefts, since they don't > require you to enable good security.
To date, I don't believe there's a secure means of transferring domain names between registrars, so wherever you register, that's where your domain stays. Register.com's web site suggests this will be changing in the near future.