From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Aug 27 23:28:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from giroc.albury.net.au (giroc.albury.NET.AU [203.15.244.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B624C37B423 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nicks@localhost) by giroc.albury.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA13278; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:27:54 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 17:27:53 +1100 From: Nick Slager To: Omar Thameen Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alternate registrars Message-ID: <20000828172753.D4470@albury.net.au> References: <20000828010912.A10944@clifford.inch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20000828010912.A10944@clifford.inch.com>; from omar@clifford.inch.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:09:12AM -0400 X-Homer: Whoohooooooo! Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Omar Thameen (omar@clifford.inch.com): [snip] > Some additional criteria: > - I'd need one that's end-user oriented, so places like bulkregister.com > wouldn't fit the bill. > - I'd also like to use a US-based company for this (no offense to non-US > folks, but if something goes wrong, I want to raise a ruckus on the > phone in English :-) A fairly major beef I have with the profusion of network registries is the lack of a centralized whois database. Most of the new ones don't use the standard NIC handles that have been around for ages :-( Having said that, I've used Click 'n Go a couple of times with good success. http://www.clickngo.com.au/ Their registrations are done using that Tucows backend thingie, OpenSRS (from memory). You'll note they aren't US -based, but most Australians speak English reasonably well :-) I've only ever contacted them by email, and always received a response within 20mins. Regards, Nick. -- From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680): "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message