Who is the Best Registrar? (take 2) 173
cardozo asks: "Since my registrar recently did a bad customer service job with me, and their site wasn't all that easy to use, I'm in the market for a new registrar. Slashdot has responded to this question in the distant past, but the world has changed since Feb 2000!. Price is important, but customer service is too. Features are less important to me, but I can imagine that having email forwarding, etc. would be nice. So who do you think is the best registrar?"
godaddy.com (Score:3, Informative)
Re:godaddy.com (Score:2)
Re:godaddy.com (Score:3, Insightful)
Finally the three domains I had registed with Network Solutions (when there was no other option), came up for renewal. I figured I'd transfer them to GoDaddy since that is where my other domains were. The first two transfered over fine, but the
I waited a day, still no
Re:godaddy.com (Score:1)
Re:godaddy.com (Score:2)
One note of warning: I had expected DNS service to be included, it is NOT (I think there is an optional fee). It wasn't a big deal in the end, but it did catch me off guard, since other registrars tend to include it (albeit at a higher registration cost).
Re:godaddy.com (Score:2)
This is included for free on parked domains. It doesn't cost anything over the default 8.95$ fee. Don't be fooled by the "parked" status, you have full control over the domain.
Re:godaddy.com (Score:3, Interesting)
Why does a legitimate business who is ALREADY getting my money need to also assault me with a barrage of advertising?
Re:godaddy.com (Score:3, Interesting)
How do you think they're able to offer such rock-bottom prices? Frankly I've been much more impressed with godaddy.com than with some other registrars who, despite charging 3-4-5x as much, subject you to similarly annoying advertising.
Re:godaddy.com (Score:2)
re: GoDaddy sucks! (Score:2)
You didn't choose to auto-renew, and you forgot to do it manually, ergo, it must be someone else's fault. OK. You did notice that portion of the terms of use that stated that X days after the registration has expired, anyone can register the domain, didn't you?
Secondly, this company is local to me, and they interviewed me for a job but then lied to me after the fact about the reason why
Re: GoDaddy sucks! (Score:2)
Read the line you quoted more carefully:
I transferred a domain to them and they let it expire, charged my account anyway, and re-registerred it to themselves.
I think if they didn't at least send an expiration warning, then they were a crappy reg
Re: GoDaddy sucks! (Score:2)
should have been:
You didn't choose to auto-renew, and you forgot to do it manually, ergo, it must be someone else's fault. OK. You did notice that portion of the terms of use that stated that X days after the registration has expired, anyone can register the domain, didn't you?
Read the line you quoted more carefully:
I transferred a domain to them and they let it expire, charged my account anyway, and re-registerred it to themselves.
I think if they didn't at lea
Re:GoDaddy sucks! (Score:2)
easydns (Score:2)
as the name implies, they do DNS as well.
absolutely awesome support. extremely functional web admin. never-fail uptime.
some perks for the whole shebang (reg + dns) include them being a backup MX host, more mail goodies (if you need them to do some forwarding) and DDNS support.
<joke>it's a shame they're canadian</joke>
Re:easydns (Score:2)
I like 'em.
gandi.net (Score:1)
Re:gandi.net (Score:2)
Re:gandi.net (Score:1)
Re:gandi.net (Score:3, Informative)
Re:gandi.net (Score:2)
They are particularly oriented at servicing non-profits, education, etc., which is cool.
I like the combo of gandi.net/zoneedit.com for small networks at the mercy of telco residential service-levels.
Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:4, Informative)
I have been using Gandi [gandi.net] for several years and been very happy with their service.
They offer domain registration in .com/.org/.net/.biz/.info/.name/.be for EUR12 a year (about $14 dollars, lately). That includes optional free web redirection, email redirection, DNS hosting, and secondary DNS. Almost all administration is automated on their website and very easy to use. I have zero complaints and nothing but compliments for them, and have been recommending them to friends for low-cost, high-quality domain registration.
From their site:
-XDG
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
<AOL>Me too.</AOL>
The only slight quibble I've had is that their web site is a bit susceptible to weird cookie madness, which means that after moving house I've been unable to update my records; but that's happened with other e-commerce sites, so I don't think it's a specific problem with GANDI.
Other than that they've been easy to use, efficient, very low maintenance, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
What I especially like is that "domain parking" (for when you don't happen to have a DNS server ready right this moment) is just a click away at no extra price--I realize that this can potentially be abused, but it's spectacularly convenient.
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
I second this. (Score:2)
Also, when I joined, Gandi was a not-for-profit service... I can't find that on their webpage now, but that's the spirit
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
Check out their "why use Gandi?" page [gandi.net].
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
Re:Gandi.net is low-cost and high-quality (Score:2)
I have a number of domains at Gandi and have never even considered looking for anyone else.
NetSol (Score:2)
Re:NetSol (Score:2)
Almost any other registrar can do everything Network Solutions does for you, for $8 to $12 a year. Who the hell cares about "frequent flyer miles"? If you're paying $35 a year then I can see why you feel excited about saving a few dollars, but for those of us that pay $8/year with godaddy.com, your argument has no value.
And regardless of value or customer service, NetSol/Verisign are a bunch of unmitigated assholes. Examples: fradulent renewal notices,
Re:NetSol (Score:2)
"Hey, when you handle DNS and registration for a chunk of people,"
it's probably not his money, but does become his miles
Re:NetSol (Score:2)
Re:NetSol (Score:2)
He could potentially charge directly say 60 dollars for the 5 years pay 30 out of that is pocket the other 30, but he would need to be clear about the fact he is charging.
He needs to be clear about the fact that he's taking these people's frequent flyer miles, as well.
Joker.com (Score:2)
I don't know what kind of extra services they offer; I've never needed any.
Re:Joker.com (Score:3, Informative)
No real issues in the 4(?) odd years I've been with them.
Re:Joker.com (Score:1)
Used Joker for years and like them... (Score:2)
Anyone using Joker DNS for their servers? I'd like to try it, but I have something that works and I'm a little hesitant to change things.
Dotster (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Dotster (Score:1)
If you don't believe me, try it. Lookup your domain using whois.biz or whois.info. Write down the contact record id's. Now go change one letter on that contact at Dotster. Then lookup your domain again. Bam! New contact record.
Re:Dotster (Score:2)
Thanks for the info
Re:Dotster - formerly good? (Score:2)
I used to love Dotster's account management interface, and their support staff was not only competent but even had a sense of humor! Sadly, things have gone dow
Re:Dotster - formerly good? (Score:2)
Dumb Question... (Score:2)
Let's say I have a static IP address and a server running Apache and Pegasus mail (SMTP server). I don't have ANYTHING registered yet with anyone.
Now, assuming I can keep my IP static, or nearly so, what do I need at a minimum to route all http requests for "www.gtracer.com" to my IP, and to route all emails for "someuser@gtracer.com" to the same IP address?
I've never been able to get a good solid answer from the tech guy I work
Re:Dumb Question... (Score:3, Informative)
www.gtracer.com A
gtracer.com MX 10 mail.gtracer.com
And then you'd just want to configure your mailserver on whatever machine is answering to that IP so that it routes everything @gtracer.com to your user account (in sendmail, you'd use the virtusertabl
Re:Dumb Question... (Score:3, Informative)
- First, register a domain name. godaddy.com would do nicely. This will cost you ten bucks a year (prepay for a couple of years).
- Next, you need DNS services. Here there is a problem: (1) if your IP isn't really static and (2) you need 2 (two) different machines serving DNS. So go to someone who can solve both problems. dyndns.org would do nicely. Give money to dyndns.org to do your DNS (you want CUSTOM service) -- they will give you the IP addresses of the DNS servers, and you sup
Not possible.... (Score:2)
Re:Not possible.... (Score:2)
This is like saying "you can't possibly drink beer. No way. Not without raising your glass to your lips."
A.
Re:Not possible.... (Score:2)
In order to set up a DNS server, the owner-of-the-reverse-DNS address (i.e., blahblahblah.yourISP.com) would have to tag the name blahblahblah.yourISP.com as a HOST. 99% of the time, this also means that said address is static and will not change. You can not register a primary NS for your domain onto a machine that is not a valid HOST.
You are completely wrong. You don't have to have reverse DNS set up to set up a host. You can do it with a semi-static IP, as long as you are willing to lose mail for a
Re:Not possible.... (Score:2)
You're showing your youth and inexperience here. What he's talking about is a host record with the registry, which is the structure that stores information about authoritative name servers for a domain.
Some registrars require reverse DNS for these and some don't.
You definitely
Re:Not possible.... (Score:2)
What he's talking about is a host record with the registry, which is the structure that stores information about authoritative name servers for a domain.
Yeah, I know what a glue record is. I've set them up before, and there was no need for reverse DNS to be set up.
Some registrars require reverse DNS for these and some don't.
Therefore you "don't have to have reverse DNS set up to set up a host." You just have to use a registrar that doesn't require reverse DNS.
You definitely cannot use a dynamic (
Re:Dumb Question... (Score:2)
Otherwise, you *can* in fact do primary DNS for a domain using the domain itself. There's a bit of a "chicken and egg" problem here -- in order to register a domain you need to provide primary and secondary DNS for it, and in order to provide a DNS
Re:Dumb Question... (Score:3, Informative)
The first is easy, plop down $8 with godaddy.com for any old domain name.
The second is a little bit more complicated. You need (at least) two seperate machines that can act as nameserver for your domain. If your IP address is really static, then you can use that machine as one of your nameservers. The way this works is you enter the nameserver's machine domain name (e.g. "ns1.yourdomain.com") and IP address in the whois registry. Normally, you would
Re:Dumb Question... (Score:2)
register.com (Score:2, Informative)
They provide a full array to tools, ex: DNS, MX, all that you need for free.
Re:register.com (Score:2)
They're not bad, though I think their online forms could be better. For instance, changing contact info can be burdensome if you have more than one domain registered with them.
Trying to change my email address contact info, they still want to send the confirmation email to a contact address I haven't had for quite some time. They provide a work around for that, but I still get the feeling that some things aren't as efficient as they could be.
That being said, I can't say I've found anyone better.
000domains (Score:1)
000domains.com [000domains.com]
Re:000domains (Score:3, Informative)
We have 30+ domains with them. They make it very easy to keep track of all of the domains you have. When I log through my technical contact login (They offer a separate login for each contact, Tech, Admin, Owner, and Billing), it lists all of the domains I'm entered as a tech contact for.
This means I can administer all of my domains at once.
Best of all, separate logins means that each of my customers (the "Owner" contacts) has a login that they can use to get into th
inexpensivedomains.com (Score:2)
- Web control panel for DNS, email forwarding, page ghosting, everything
I've been using them for a couple years now, 0 problems, they even have decent support.
But, but... (Score:1)
Now where would we be without their 'innovation', 'service', and 'helpful tool to navigate the web' ?
Re:But, but... (Score:2)
I, for one... (Score:2)
Best/worst for .com, best for .co.uk (Score:2, Informative)
Worst for international - icann.totalnic.net
Best for UK - easily.co.uk
Totalnic lock all your domains so you have to write to Australia (snail mail!) to request them to be unlocked before transferring them away.
Godaddy will not charge you if a transfer to them is unsuccessful (e.g. when I tried to transfer from Totalnic to Godaddy and found that my domains were locked!).
Easily makes it pretty easy to deal with co.uk domains - not all the crappy paperwork of Nominet.
Highly recommend Gandi.net (Score:2)
duh (Score:2)
BulkRegister (Score:2)
Well, personally... (Score:1)
They have several packages to choose from (prices listed are in GBP, but you can pay internationally with PayPal) [hoh.co.uk], and the support is always friendly and personal.
Depending on the package you get, you can have mail forwarding or a POP3 box. And if you want the webspace, there's ASP/PHP and Access-ODBC/MySQL (again, depending on how much you want to pay!)
DISCLAIMER: I started using HOH when they employed me for some part-time web development. I'm still a satisfied
123cheapdomains.com? (Score:2)
powepipe (Score:2)
$7.99
easy interface... bulk registering..
bulk changing... Good stuff.
Go Daddy is great (Score:1)
When I first got on the web, I hosted some sites on directnic, and they SUCKED. They inserted ads into my pages, very poorly done too, so I couldn't validate my pages. When I decided to switch to my own hosting, the bastards removed my whole site instantly w
OVH.com (Score:3, Informative)
All prices excluding VAT, 1 euro ~= 1.17 USD
Disclaimer: I'm an happy paying customer and switched all my email and DNS to OVH a month ago. No other relationship with OVH or OVH people.
Disclaimer 2: already posted in another /. discussion about webmail.
Laurent
redirection.net (Score:2)
about $15/year with email fowarding, subdomains, etc. I've only used customer service via email, and got responses in 2 to 8 hours
I used to use
How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
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Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
http://www.instantssl.com
http://www.freessl.c o m
http://www.geotrust.com
All of them seem to be pretty good. I use Comodo, simply because that's the cheapest people who were around a year or two ago, and they offered the highest compatible certificate, and now I'm a partner. They offer pretty good service and very good prices, and their certificates are more compatible than Geotrust
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
I have run many an ecommerce website with Thawte certificates. Lately I have been a fan of InstantSSL [instantssl.com] certificates.
I would suggest this excelent resource WhichSSL? [whichssl.com] to assist you in deciding which SSL provider to use.
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Basically, they are both low budget certificates and while they compete somewhat on price, mostly they try to sell their strengths and over-FUD the other certificate's weaknesses. InstantSSL has a wider browers recognit
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
That would explain why I had to have new root certificates installed into Apache on RedHat 7.2.
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
Re:How about SSL certificates? (Score:2)
I would recommend www.freessl.com [freessl.com]'s ChainedSSL offering. It looks like it's now $50 for that product, whereas it used to be $35. However, they're now offering their "FreeSSL" product for $35 (it used to cost more). Both are functionally equivalent: one is directly signed by a root CA, whereas one is signed by a CA which is signed by a root CA (all web browsers I've seen deal
I have had good experience with Domain Monger (Score:2)
sPh
Re:I have had good experience with Domain Monger (Score:2)
Though I probably stick with them more for the familiarity of it then anything else. Always wanted to give godaddy a try, but just never got around to it.
I like Dotster (Score:3, Informative)
Pairnic (Score:2)
Pairnic is not the cheapest (for 1 year registrations anyway) but they're worth it, especially if you ever need support. They'll be there...
I think I am (Score:2)
http://www.reg.ca/ (Score:3, Informative)
They are cheap, and it's easy to get in touch with a real, live human being if problems arise.
pairNIC. (Score:2)
GoDaddy (Score:2)
Little heavy on the spam side (~20-30 emails a year for new services)
Gandi = good, NetSol acting fishy? (Score:2)
However, there's a little bit of wierdness from the NetSol side: I xferred the domain a week ago, and as far as Gandi is concerned, the deal is done. Running $whois omar.org returns a referral to Gandi. Yet NetSol sent me an email today saying the domain could not be transferred because one of the contacts did not respond. WTF? I responded
Re:Gandi = good, NetSol acting fishy? (Score:2)
<plug type="shameless">Maybe when it comes time to renew you will consider using OmegaSphere [omegasphere.net] for your domain name [omegasphere.net] needs? We do good support, and apparently have the approval of an AC right here on
The full list of accredited registrars (Score:2)
Naturally, some are probably much better than others. I'd recommend godaddy.com [godaddy.com], gandi.net [gandi.net], or joker.com [joker.com].
Additionally, if do not want your contact information to be public, you can use DomainsByProxy.com [domainsbyproxy.com]. You register through a registrar that's one of DBP's affiliates and pay an extra $15/year or so
Re:The full list of accredited registrars (Score:2)
cheapest-domains/zoneedit (Score:2)
Been using them for ~2 years, ~5 domains. $10.95/yr.
IMO registrar's should just register the damn domain and do it cheap
For mailfowarding, nameservers, etc.,
I like zoneedit.com's price (free for up to 10 I think) and user interface so they run my nameservers and I can easily edit the config online there, do mail forwarding, etc.
Domain Maniac (Score:2)
Of course, I used to work for them...
Moo (Score:2)
$5 a year for .com's at Rackshack/EV1Servers (Score:2)
WARNING: Parent is Reseller/Affiliate (Score:2)
Hmmm...unless they added *2* years to the previous expiration date, then they weren't doing anything special.
*Whenever* you transfer a domain name to another registrar, the expiration date is automatically extended by another year. So basically you're getting a $2 incentive to transfer to them from another registrar. The added year is actually a requiremen
Re:Namesecure mini-rant (Score:2)