Hello,
Been lurking a while, but this is my first post to the group.
Just back into web application development after a short (three year) hiatus and am curious about domain registrars. When I started web stuff 10 year ago, there were but a couple registrars around and I went with Network solutions for my personal site, as well as all my business sites. So I am comfortable with how they work, and have been pleased with the service.
Now there are so many more! I have dealt with a few as support person (during my hiatus I was a systems admin), and was less than pleased with the way registrars such as GoDaddy worked, but that could have been in part due t the fact that I was trying to support USERS who had done silly things like forgotten their logins and passwd to the registrar, set up the DNS info for their domains wrong, etc.
So, I need to register a couple new domains, and was planning to go back to Network Solutions, but I have also noticed there are plenty of other ways to get my domain registered, and for so much cheaper too. However, after my past experience with GoDaddy, CheapNames, and even my own hosting providing, I am doubtful that I will be happy with the level of control I get over my domain name. I LIKE owning my domain in full and being in complete charge of making sure DNS gets updated, ensuring that the domain gets renewed in a timely fashion (another problem we had with using a registrar that was not network Solutions).
So my question is, WHY would I switch to something other than Network Solutions? I look forward to your input!
Joyce
Been lurking a while, but this is my first post to the group.
Just back into web application development after a short (three year) hiatus and am curious about domain registrars. When I started web stuff 10 year ago, there were but a couple registrars around and I went with Network solutions for my personal site, as well as all my business sites. So I am comfortable with how they work, and have been pleased with the service.
Now there are so many more! I have dealt with a few as support person (during my hiatus I was a systems admin), and was less than pleased with the way registrars such as GoDaddy worked, but that could have been in part due t the fact that I was trying to support USERS who had done silly things like forgotten their logins and passwd to the registrar, set up the DNS info for their domains wrong, etc.
So, I need to register a couple new domains, and was planning to go back to Network Solutions, but I have also noticed there are plenty of other ways to get my domain registered, and for so much cheaper too. However, after my past experience with GoDaddy, CheapNames, and even my own hosting providing, I am doubtful that I will be happy with the level of control I get over my domain name. I LIKE owning my domain in full and being in complete charge of making sure DNS gets updated, ensuring that the domain gets renewed in a timely fashion (another problem we had with using a registrar that was not network Solutions).
So my question is, WHY would I switch to something other than Network Solutions? I look forward to your input!
Joyce
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Re: domain registrars
Fri, November 4, 2005 - 11:30 AMAvoid Network Solutions at all cost. They charge more than anyone, they are HORRIBLE to do business with, and they are so bureaucratic that you'll never get anything done if it is outside the realm of their registration services.
I use ns.com for all my domain registrations. At $11.95/yr they're not the cheapest, but they are easy to deal with and reliable.
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Re: domain registrars
Fri, November 4, 2005 - 11:35 AMFirst, it sounds like you're talking about domain registration, not registrars. There's still only a handful of actual registrar organizations, but a gazillion registration companies.
I switched over to registering domain names with oneandone.com in the last couple of years.
My reasons for switching to them:
1) very inexpensive (i thing $6/year)
2) no obnoxious upsells to get through to buy the domain like godaddy has- gawd i can't stand godaddy.
3) auto renewal
4) easy control of dns settings, etc.
5) easy control over tech/admin/owner contacts, etc.
6) generally pretty simple to work with.
The only drawback that I've experienced is that I can't find a way to view all of my domains with expiration dates, which really ticks me off. I've contacted support about this, and they won't give me an answer. It seems like a pretty simple request.... let me view my domains with exp. dates, duh.
Before using one and one, I used domainsnext.com forever. However, they're still in that $13 range and support sucks but at least I can view my domain list with exp. dates as I should be able to <sigh>
