From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 20:52:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E610037B416 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:52:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id fB44prd54624; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:51:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 23:51:53 -0500 (EST) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Gary Kline Cc: Nick Rogness , Chris Hill , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Registrar recommendations wanted In-Reply-To: <20011203201008.B19317@tao.thought.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think the risk to the end user if a registrar goes bankrupt is pretty minimal, about zero if you do your own DNS. But in any case their only asset is their customer base so I think surviving registrars would be lining up to purchase the assets. The registrar agreement seems silent on what happens to the end users but if yourdomain.tld has been added to the root name servers and you have paid your fees, there is little reason (or incentive??) to remove it. see http://www.icann.org/registrars/ra-agreement-17may01.htm I personally think using the registrar of your choice is pretty low risk. That said I do have customer that prefer NSI assuming they will never go out of business. An issue in this reguard is what happens to the "glue" records maintained by a defunct registrar. I would like to hear thoughts on that. On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:00:35PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Chris Hill wrote: > > > > > Does anyone have any recommendations regarding domain registrars? I'll > > > need to renew a domin pretty soon, and would like to hear of others' > > > experiences, good and bad. > > $10/year sound beats the latest remnder from NetSol that has > a ``bargain'' of 2 years for something like $75... The only > concern I have is: how stableis GKG? I'd be loathe to lose > my domain for difference. Agree that NSoltions =sucks=. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message