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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

At 08:54 AM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> on Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:58:13AM -0400, Bob Kucera wrote:
> > How worthwhile is domain name registration?
>
> As a way to accelerate aging, it works great.
>
> > It seems like a good way to spend some money on my tech habit. Is
> > there a preferred registrar for a domain name and dns service?
>
> Not really. In my experience, they all suck in some ways, and it's a matter
> of finding one that sucks less in the ways that matter most to you.


I agree. I have tried several services and several of them are nightmares 
because they try to sell you so much extra junk along the way in the 
registration process.

At the risk of being chastised by the geek crowd, I have decided to do all 
my future domain registration via Yahoo Web Services. They are more 
expensive than some ($35 per year as i recall) but you get one free e-mail 
account (pop,smtp, and web) with the account and unlimited e-mail 
forwarding. They can host sites on your domain too with several packages 
starting at $8.95 a month.

You can find cheaper, but I have found Yahoo's web based registration 
interfaces and domain management interfaces to be easy to use and 
convenient. Check them out at http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info .




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