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[Christopher Witter <christopher_witter AT yahoo.com>]

I like pairnic.com, cheap (not the cheapest) great
management interface only down fall is they don't have
a phone number that I could find to call when I forgot
my password and username, they respond very well to
email and are pretty quick to come back with the
response.

Christopher
--- Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com> 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.
> 
>  NSI: evil monopolist, despite "competition"
>  register.com: I switched to register from NSI and
> for a week, they had
>   excellent customer service, which they promptly
> outsourced to a firm
>   that knows nothing and has no access to the
> systems you're calling to
>   complain about.
>  joker.com: heard good things. cheap. 
>  godaddy.com: silly name. heard good things. 
>  dotster: it's not spam if you're a customer, even
> if they send it
>   once a day for a year.
> 
> Don't use .nu, as they charge more for individual
> acts of necessary
> maintenance (such as updating your name servers or
> contact info, which
> is done automatically via Web forms anyway) than for
> the initial
> registration.
> 
> There are dozens of other registrars. Most of them
> don't even provide
> a working whois service (port 43 tcp), which is the
> basic requirement
> for accreditation by ICANN. Apparently, ICANN only
> cares about NSI and
> dundjerski.com, not about the fact that
> godaddy.com's /own whois record/
> lacks IP addresses for its primary and secondary dns
> servers. Or that
> dotster's is the same way. Or that namezero gives
> '111-111-1111' as
> their phone number. 
> 
> Whois is a joke. ICANN is a joke.
> 
> Domain registration is an administrative nightmare
> and policy sinkhole.
> 
> > it looks like the thing to do is to roll up my
> sleeves and really
> > research them by cost of registration, services
> provided, cost of dns
> > registration is an add-on (I suppose to be
> researched separately), and
> > I wonder which of these companies will drop out of
> business and leave
> > me having to change registrars.
> 
> Tip: domain names are cheap. Don't think you're
> saving anything by going
> with the $5/yr registrar versus the $35/yr
> registrar; you're not. The
> only problem is that support from the $35/yr
> registrar will likely cost
> you thousands of dollars a year if you have any
> significant investment
> in their services, as you'll spend your time in
> limbo on hold here on
> earth. The benefit is that you get to go straight to
> heaven when you
> die, and you'll never see an NSI support rep again
> (they have their own
> circle of hell set aside, I am quite sure).
> 
> Also, if you're registering multiple domains, check
> the registrar to
> see if you will have to edit /every single record/
> every time you change
> any information about a contact. register.com, for
> example, has no way
> of modifying a contact handle - if I have fifty
> domains registered to
> 'hostmaster AT hesketh.net' (and I do) and I need to
> change the contact
> mailing address, I have to do it on /all fifty/, one
> at a time. Feh.
> 
> If I'd saved anything on registration fees, and I
> didn't, the savings
> would have been eroded right there. As I didn't save
> anything but hassle
> and the gnawing discomfort at supporting an
> unresponsive monopolist,
> as it was I was out some hours /and/ the fuzzy good
> feeling I got from
> dumping NSI, where I could have accomplished the
> update in a few minutes,
> via automated email-template processes, instead of
> dicking with a Web
> form, over and over and over.
> 
> Like I said, you need to find the registrar that
> least offends your most
> important sensibilities.
> 
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