From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 3 21: 0:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30BE37B405 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 21:00:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 91ACF78562; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:30:42 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:30:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Kaila , John Vender Cc: Chris Hill , FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Registrar recommendations wanted Message-ID: <20011204153042.H97688@monorchid.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] John Vender wrote one line per paragraph. On Monday, 3 December 2001 at 19:11:37 -0600, Kaila 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. >> > > I've had good experiences with both > www.joker.com > and > www.gandi.net > > I am currently transferring all my Network Solutions/Verisign domains over to > www.gandi.net. Yes, I did the same thing. gandi also has a connection with FreeBSD (one of the development team works there). I've been happy with them. On Tuesday, 4 December 2001 at 13:08:40 +1100, John Vender 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. >> >> Go with: >> >> GKG www.gkg.net >> >> For 2 main reasons: >> >> - cheap ($10/yr) >> - When you call them you get a real person that actually speaks >> English well. >> >> Stay away from NetworkSolutions...I could go on for hours on how >> they suck. > > I second that emotion, particularly since the verisign takeover, > their databases are seriously messed up and I've found it difficult > to even pay for renewing domain names lately. That's before we get to > the times when you actually need to phone them to sort something > out... Notwork Solutions are the most clueless idiots I've seen in a long while. They actually send mail from unregistered domains, and they don't have reverse lookup, so many people's mail (including FreeBSD.org) rejects the messages as spam. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message