Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:39:22 -0400 From: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net> To: Duane Whitty <duane@greenmeadow.ca> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Domain Name Registrars Message-ID: <446DF4BA.3070602@vineyard.net> In-Reply-To: <446D157A.4070308@greenmeadow.ca> References: <446D157A.4070308@greenmeadow.ca>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We like OpenSRS. They have an API; so you can write your own code to update what you want (or you can just use theirs). Tech support is quite good. In this day-and-age my highest praise: "they're not assholes." Duane Whitty wrote: > Hello to everyone, > > Would anyone care to recommend a good domain name registrar, > able to offer service for both gTLDs and .ca ccTLDs. > > I've tried cheap and to be honest my headache just keeps growing. > After having setup FreeBSD, DNS, Sendmail, and Apache, I thought > I had the hard stuff taken care of. I guess I was wrong. > > All I want to do is have my registrar point the name server entries for > a .com domain I'm managing at the name servers I'm running. Why is this > so difficult? Or expensive? > > Is it my fault? Am I doing something wrong? -- I know, kinda hard to > answer that. > > My registrar told me my name server needs to be registered with ICANN. > I've read > as much as I could find about ICANN's mandate and policies on their website > http://www.icann.org but I couldn't find anything which indicated I had > to register > anything with them unless I intended on becoming an ICANN certified > registrar. > > It seems odd in any event that I would need to register my name server, > which is in the .ca > domain, with ICANN. Obviously I had to register with CIRA but that > seems irrelevant > to my current situation / vexation. > > If I do somehow need to register my name server with ICANN would someone > be so kind > as to point me to the correct RTFM entry, URI, etc. > > Thanks in advance, > > Duane Whitty - -- Eric W. Bates ericx@vineyard.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEbfS6D1roJTQ4LlERAjAKAKCFbgB4v9s0vhh1zY9SimlZ6Ii79gCgu8il NssgOQ74uVHkz20ESaSl+BU= =1P+b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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