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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>
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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
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