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["Thomas C. Meggs" <tom AT plik.net>]

I've had the same experience with Yahoo.

A friend of mine wanted to move his domain over to a box I have 
colocated, since hosting it would be free, no quota, no bandwidth 
limitations, and PHP/MySQL/etc (he was on Yahoo). When Yahoo was emailed 
about changing just the DNS settings to point to my box they pretty much 
didn't even respond.

Regards,
Tom

K. Jo Garner wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Calvin Powers wrote:
> ->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 .
>
> Have fun, but if you decide to host somewhere else other than Yahoo! good 
> luck getting them to change the DNS over to - well, anything - they 
> subcontract their domain managements, etc. to a co. in Australia and they 
> don't return emails, phone calls, ICQs, whatever. I call Yahoo for a 
> friend: "You need to contact so and so in Australia." We email them, and a 
> few days later: "You need to contact Yahoo." My friend does not profess to 
> be tech savvy, nor web-domain-management-smart, and just wanted a straight 
> answer from *someone*. Eventually, the bozos at Yahoo do their thing and 
> she's now hosted with Earthlink, and happy with them. 
>
> I registered vehicularchicken.org thru Go Daddy, it's cheap and since I'm 
> not doing anything with it right now it's being held for free. A friend 
> has tekay.org, which redirects to his personal page, and he registered 
> with Go Daddy as well. 7.95/year. 
>
> Cheers
> KJ
>
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