Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-02 Thread Stuart Jansen
On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 10:10 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote: > I've been using https://dns.he.net/ and like it. As it's a free service, > you're limited to 50 domains. Still, 50 domains. The one qualification is > that you have to either be an HE customer or have completed their (also > free) IPv6 certi

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-02 Thread Jonathan Duncan
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Andy Bradford > > wrote: > > > Maybe I'll look at Hover... > > > > > > I'd like to hear what others are using. > > > > Recently (well, last few years), I've been using Amazon's Route53 and > > don't

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-02 Thread Corey Edwards
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > I generally recommend separating your registrar from your DNS > provider. If you are using a hosting provider, consider using them as > a DNS provider, they are generally better than your registrar. Also, > you have more business leverage ov

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-02 Thread Lonnie Olson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 4:07 PM, John Shaver wrote: > 1 and 1 obviously has no idea how DNS works. Quite possibly, I have never had good DNS service from a registrar. Godaddy, Namecheap, Hover, Network Solutions. Some times the DNS service is barely acceptable, but usually there is a critical fla

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-02 Thread Brian J. Rogers
I've used Namecheap and Name.com, both have been fine. My only complaints were that Namecheap was still using a pre-2000 looking interface. One thing that is a must for me is two-factor authentication. If they don't have anything in that regard, I won't even consider them. I've heard too many horr

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-01 Thread Gabriel Gunderson
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Andy Bradford wrote: > Maybe I'll look at Hover... I'd like to hear what others are using. Recently (well, last few years), I've been using Amazon's Route53 and don't have any reason to dislike it. Price seems to be competitive and it's straight forward, no gimmi

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-01 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said David Landry on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:56:26 -0400: > Yup. I moved my domains to Hover a little while back because of stuff > like that. 1and1 has cheap promos, but the aggravation isn't worth it. I haven't yet found a registrar that was up to snuff. I used to think Dotster wasn't too

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-01 Thread Andy Bradford
Thus said John Shaver on Sun, 31 Aug 2014 16:07:07 -0600: > However the transition didn't go so smoothly for me, since as soon as > I changed may nameservers with 1and1, they deleted all of my records > from their nameservers. I'm not using them anymore? right? I don't see what they did wron

Re: 1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-09-01 Thread David Landry
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 6:07 PM, John Shaver wrote: > 1 and 1 obviously has no idea how DNS works. > Yup. I moved my domains to Hover a little while back because of stuff like that. 1and1 has cheap promos, but the aggravation isn't worth it. --- David Landry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on

1 and 1 dns nightmare.

2014-08-31 Thread John Shaver
Hey all, I just want to send out a warning to those using 1and1. I have my domain jshaver.net registered through them and so I was also using their dns services. I decided to sign up for an external DNS service with API access so I could try out some fun stuff with my domains. After signing up