RE: [DMCForum] Domain registrars/resellers

["Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use http://www.netfirms.com
You can get either a free site, or a $5 a month with lots of storage,
or the one I use $10 a month and I think I have several GB of storage
and something like 50GB transfer a month.
- VB

>From: "Jeff Chabotte" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [DMCForum] Domain registrars/resellers
>Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:58:07 -0400
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>A couple better places:
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>Dotster.com
>Ev1servers.net
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>Or I ould register them for you as I own a webhosting company,
>7blade.com for $12/yr. if you need any help, contact me off list.
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>-Jeff Chabotte
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>Behalf Of Ryan Wright
>Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:46 AM
>To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [DMCForum] Domain registrars/resellers
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>Any opinions on a good domain registrar/reseller?
>And what's the difference between the two?
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>Long story short: I have half a dozen domain names with GoDaddy. Never
>had a problem until yesterday. Apparently someone filed a complaint
>about my invalid whois data on ryanwright.com. I had written "private"
>for the address and "000-0000" for my phone number. My email address,
>however, was valid, which should be good enough - it allows people to
>contact me.
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>Not so. The complaint was filed and GoDaddy yanked my domain. Didn't
>even tell me, either. Yesterday DNS servers quit resolving it. I called
>GoDaddy FOUR times today. The first three times it was, "Oh, there is
>apparently some problem on our end, we will fix it." Then, "You should
>try this, etc." When it got later into the evening and it still wasn't
>working despite my doing everything they asked, I called a fourth time.
>This time the rep argued with me that it must be a problem with my DNS
>server. Eventually he agreed to look into it further and then told me,
>"Oh, we took your domain away from you, you can't have invalid whois
>data, that's a federal law you're breaking by writing 'private' in
>there."
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>Well first he's full of himself, it's not a law, apprently just an ICANN
>policy. And second, I'm supposed to get 15 days notice, but they don't
>seem to care. So I fixed the info and they agreed to reinstate my domain
>but, "It could take up to 7 days." Those f***ers. They can take it away
>in an instant but won't give it back for a week? In the meantime I can't
>contact anyone, nobody can get to my web site, and my mail servers are
>broken because DNS doesn't resolve correctly anymore.
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>So I'm very disillusioned with the whole domain name thing. I can't
>believe they can just take your domain from you like that... especially
>considering I paid for the damn thing. I'm even more upset at the way
>GoDaddy handled the whole thing and am looking for another registrar to
>transfer my domains to. Any suggestions?? I've been doing a lot of
>searching and it seems like most of them are fly by night con artists.
>Lots of reports of various registarars refusing to release domains when
>you try to transfer them, confiscating them for random (or no) reasons,
>intentionally overcharging, refusing to issue refunds after they
>overcharge, then confiscating ALL of your domains if you issue a
>chargeback... Lots of things that should be illegal, but apparently
>aren't, and will never be resolved without lawyers.
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>Oh, and even better, every time you change your whois info - which I was
>just forced to do tonight -- GoDaddy locks your domains for 60 days and
>disallows all transfers during that time period. Isn't that nice. So I'm
>completely at their mercy. That, and someone out there dislikes me
>enough to complain because they couldn't get my private mailing address
>out of whois. Like they had any f***ing right to it in the first place.
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>:(
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>-Ryan
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