On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Roger Burton West <ro...@firedrake.org> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 02:40:16PM +0100, James Laver wrote: >>Today, namecheap had some scheduled site downtime (dns still >>operational) without notifying their customers (at least neither >>myself nor my flatmate were informed) but customer service insists an >>email was sent out to everybody. They also can't tell me even roughly >>when it will be back up. > > Do you want a registrar or a nameserver host?
Both, but I've never seen a registrar that didn't offer hosting of it free anyway. I chose to keep my domains on Namecheap's servers because up until now they've provided a great service. > Unless you wanted to buy a > bunch of new domains today, I don't see why registrar downtime should > affect you. I did want to buy a new domain, but I also couldn't update details on any of my domains had I wanted to. --James
