I'm a fan of gandi.net, over in France. I registered a US org domain
with them last spring, and will be moving most if not all of my domains
to them in the future as registrations get closer to expiration.
It cost 12EU per year (EU currently trading around 86 cents US to the EU
if memory serves), Set up was easy, I can extend it out to 10 years, and
unlike Network Solutions, gandi has yet to send me my first piece of
spam. I've used three other registrars (invite, NS, and joker) for
various domains. I've received spam from all the others, in particular
NS (very limited from joker and invite to the point where they might
almost make the case that they didn't spam). invite can't cope with
transferring a domain from another registrar for some weird reason.
gandi.net seems best set up to do that of the ones I've used.
Before doing business with any registrar, do a google search of
news.admin.net-abuse.email to make sure you aren't giving your email
address to a registrar which has a reputation for spamming its
customers. NS got so bad that this became my primary reason for finding
another registrar, so that I could stick their IP space into my procmail
filter.
From: Roger Sherman
Subject: Re: [newbie] buying Domain Name from Yahoo
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 15:10:48 -0700
No! Go to Dotster.com, 15 clams a year...
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Tuan Duc Tran wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am going to buy a Domain Name (registered Domain) for my Web
Server. I
> have a plain to buy it from Yahoo. Has anyone bought it from
Yahoo? Is
> this a good way to do? It's cost about $35.00 USD/year.
> Tuan
>
>
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