[wplug] domain question

[Michael Semcheski]

If you're willing to pay a little bit more to be sure that you'll be
happy with your registrar, I usually point people to pairnic.com.

Not the cheapest, no bundled services included.   However, they have
real live customer service and their prices (especially for longer
term registrations) are competitive.

Those bundled services are basically commodities.  When I had Nidhog
as my ISP and a static IP, they were happy to run my DNS for me.  Most
web-hosts will handle DNS for you.  And if you want something like
failover mail, you probably are going to pay for the DNS service
anyway.

I like pairnic.com.  They're a local company.  YMMV.

Mike



On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net> wrote:
> Many registrars bundle services like URL forwarding and e-mail
> forwarding.  I used to use GoDaddy and would not recommend them.
> Their web administration interface is truly horrible, and they
> will continually spam you to buy additional services.
>
> Currently I am with 1&1 <http://1and1.com/> and am satisfied so
> far.  DNS is included, as is URL forwarding and e-mail (either
> forwarding or POP mailboxes).  If you have a static IP you may
> wish to simply point DNS toward your own mail/web servers.  I do
> not think they offer the type of failover service you want; for
> that, you may be able to put something together using
> <http://www.dyndns.com/> or similar.
>
> I have seen others complain about downtime with 1&1's hosting, but
> don't use it myself.  Domain services seem reliable, and the price
> is certainly right.  I wouldn't recommend them for a corporate
> domain (or even, say, WPLUG's domain) where you have to be
> absolutely certain it will work 24/7, but for a personal domain
> they work out quite nicely.
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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