From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 27 18: 0:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3C6A37B55B for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:00:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id DAA00440; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:00:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3980DC09.D8CD0353@nisser.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 03:04:09 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Ollivier Robert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: register now, pay later, for a domain? References: <39809854.4371.22E5CDD8@localhost> <20000727214252.A43574@keltia.freenix.fr> <20000728091206.B36172@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Thursday, 27 July 2000 at 21:42:53 +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Dan Langille: > >> Does anyone know a domain registrar where I can register the domain > >> now and pay later? > > > > AFAIK none of the current registrars support this. NSI used to but moved to a > > credit card based system and all later registars adopted the same schema > > because they're pre-buy domains to NSI. > > I think it's very unlikely that there will be one. Some US film > makers were apparently registering film names in advance, putting up a > web site, then closing down before they ever got round to paying. Same here - The Netherlands, that is. The company namespace.com had reputedly registered about 25.000 domainnames without apparantly paying for them. No wonder we had a cybersquatting problem. But you've got to admit it's great for business. Buy low, sell high and disappear when the sh*t threatens to hit the fan. Roelof -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Het Slakke Huis van de TGV op http://SlakkeHuis.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. UPC/Chello home http://nisser.com/ Beveiligingsverwijzingen http://nisser.com/links.htm Lokale Chello lijn monitor http://nisser.com/~roelof/logs_chello.shtml Nationale UPC monitor http://nl.eboa.com/~roelof/NL/landelijk.php3 ---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message