Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 15:30:42 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Kaila <kaila@o-o.org>, John Vender <john@jmv.com.au> Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Registrar recommendations wanted Message-ID: <20011204153042.H97688@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <l03102801b831dff7dbb1@[203.173.153.222]> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112031909190.22807-100000@o-o.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011203193313.31417A-100000@localhost> <l03102801b831dff7dbb1@[203.173.153.222]> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1011203193313.31417A-100000@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112031909190.22807-100000@o-o.org>
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[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
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