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We transfered all of our domains from NSI to BulkRegister, and we have been very happy with BulkRegister, so far. --- Noel
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all right, i looked at a few and asked some questions. so far, dotster.com is out in front; they do almost everything i want. so i tried transferring one of my nsi domains to them yesterday. hallelujah, nsi apparently let it go through, because i rec'd a 'we're sorry to lose you, 'cuz we've got plans to keep getting better [sic!]' from them. all in less than 24 hours. dotster's tracking of the progress of the transfer is superiour, too. another point: nsi only allows four (4) nameservers. dotster allows up to thirteen. no answers yet from the others i asked. from the answers to my last few queries, nsi's tech-support couldn't help themselves out of a soggy paper bag with both hands, a map, and a torch. good riddance. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
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* Ben Laurie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > >i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. > >they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly. > > > >does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good > >registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge > >exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of > >n years signup? > > > >i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely* > >happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with > >any other registrars at all. > > OpenSRS. > Agreed 100% -Thom
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Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly. does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of n years signup? i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely* happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with any other registrars at all. OpenSRS. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff
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I've been happy with http://www.gkg.net/ who is a registrar, i.e. not intermediated by Tucows or one of the others intermediaries. I used to be an expert on this mess, two years ago, maybe the rules have changed... but at that time: Transferring registrations is like changing brokers or phone companies; the "winning" registrar just pulls your account from the "loosing" registrar. That operation is free, but when the account moves you need to purchase registration one more time - you will loose the any outstanding time on your existing registration. The winning registrar is scared they will pull a domain that you don't own; so they establish some little ritual to attempt to authenticate you. People have settled into asking you to fax your driver's license. You should not need to interact with the loosing registrar at all. It is very hard for them to prevent the transfer. That said some loosing registrars will send an email to assert that you have requested the transfer and there is no reason not to respond. For the low price registrars they manage to get only 10-15% of the money you pay, most of it goes thru to registry. But then they don't do much more than run a web UI to the registry's APIs. - ben On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly. does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of n years signup? i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely* happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with any other registrars at all. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I've been using gandi.net for a few years, and they seem ok. 12 Euro per domain. -- David N. Welton Consulting: http://www.dedasys.com/ Personal: http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/ Free Software: http://www.dedasys.com/freesoftware/ Apache Tcl: http://tcl.apache.org/
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Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i forgot to list a couple of things i need from a registrar: > > 1. reasonable transfer prices (no 'pay us for the privilege >of paying us in the future' hooey, please ;-) > 2. central management (multiple domains manageable from a >single signon to the registrar's site) > 3. ability to have differing per-domain contact information; >i take care of all aspects of a few domains except paying >for them, so they should have a different billing address -- >but everything else should be me. I've been using joker.com for a few years now, and they meet all of your criteria, and the annual domain cost (just for registration) is about US$10. Oh, and Dirk's spot on about Network Solutions 'losing' your transfer requests... you'll undoubtedly have to send a few of them. -Fitz
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www.godaddy.com has looked good to me [some customers use it], the price was cheap and the central management seemed useful the one time I went and used it for them. I use www.dots-r-us.com, another Tucows reseller and my only complaint there is that the renewal system is poor. I have to buy a new domain of 'RENEW-domain.com' where domain.com is my domain name, or do the renewal online. That said, it's never screwed up for me. Hen On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > i forgot to list a couple of things i need from a registrar: > > 1. reasonable transfer prices (no 'pay us for the privilege >of paying us in the future' hooey, please ;-) > 2. central management (multiple domains manageable from a >single signon to the registrar's site) > 3. ability to have differing per-domain contact information; >i take care of all aspects of a few domains except paying >for them, so they should have a different billing address -- >but everything else should be me. > -- > #ken P-)} > > Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ > Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ > > "Millennium hand and shrimp!" > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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i forgot to list a couple of things i need from a registrar: 1. reasonable transfer prices (no 'pay us for the privilege of paying us in the future' hooey, please ;-) 2. central management (multiple domains manageable from a single signon to the registrar's site) 3. ability to have differing per-domain contact information; i take care of all aspects of a few domains except paying for them, so they should have a different billing address -- but everything else should be me. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
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On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. > they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly. Aye - same experience here; suddenly they became a lot worse in the last 6 months. Not sure what happened. > does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good > registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge > exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of > n years signup? I am vey happy with domaindirect.com (who is just a plain tucows reseller). Bear in mind that netsol/verisign often 'looses' your first two or three transfer requests; so you need to persist a littke. DW
[ot] domain registrars
i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly. does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of n years signup? i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely* happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with any other registrars at all. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
