[NCLUG] Nameserver Hosting

[DJ Eshelman]

Well, after loosing one of my domains because of a screw up with Network 
Solutions (who actually did sell my domain to a squatter instead of 
allow me to control where the domain was held), I transferred my domains 
over there and haven't had a problem in the 4 or so years I've been with 
them.  I have a lot of meaningless little domains, only a few of which 
are even remotely popular so I haven't really dealt with those issues 
yet if they exist.

And as far as using the 'sex sells' mentality, that's not as irritating 
as the ads when you are in their site; but I'm willing to tolerate a 
lot.  When you manage 20 or so domains and have no budget to speak of 
for them... it's not bad.  I once tried to do the tucows thing but... it 
didn't go so well.

Brian Wood wrote:
>
> On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:09 AM, DJ Eshelman wrote:
>
>> I thought for sure I'd be the last in the world to actually 
>> /recommend/ this, but I've been pretty happy with GoDaddy, who does 
>> registration and DNS hosting.  The DNS hosting is included in the 
>> price and I've never had an issue, in fact they are one of the rare 
>> ones with an actual usable interface that you can actually even add 
>> things like SPF records and I think even multi-alias servers with 
>> little difficulty.
>
> The problems I have read about with GoDaddy include their retaining 
> ownership of domains they have charged their customers for. In the 
> rare event that a domain becomes very popular they apparently use that 
> ownership to leverage a huge increase in fees to the customer. Of 
> course I do not know if these allegations are true.
>
> I also am not impressed by their attempts to use sex to sell their 
> services, as anyone who has seen their TV commercials has experienced.
>
> Generally the more heavily advertised a product becomes the less 
> likely you are to need it.
>
> Check out:
>
> http://nodaddy.com/
>
> But if they are providing you with good service I'm glad to hear that.
>
> beww
>
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