[olug] directnic.com down

[aric at omahax.com]

Sorry? I liked the response.

I am using our impending doom to convince end users to remove the clear
plastic film used to protect things like small LCD screen during shipping
and handling.

>
>    Sorry, I was  playing on words read from many bus stop benches around
> town
>    re: May 21, 2011
>
>    aric at omahax.com wrote ..
>
> Am I wrong in saying that a domain registrar doesn't have much to do with
> reliability of DNS resolution?
>
> Don't they just basically have DNS root zone write access?  For example on
> a .com Godaddy can write records to VeriSign's network information center?
>
> I use http://www.zoneedit.com/ often for DNS services.
>
>>
>>    ...but really, how cheap is cheap or stable if the world comes to an
>> end?
>>
>>    Let's talk disaster recovery :-)
>>
>>    Jon Larsen  wrote ..
>>
>> I recently moved all but one of my domains to hover.com, a division of
>> tucows.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 20 May 2011, George De Bruin wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 13:30:34 -0500
>>> From: George De Bruin
>>> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>>> Subject: Re: [olug] directnic.com down
>>>
>>> I've been using namecheap.com for several years now...  works well, and
>>> have
>>> had zero issues with them.  I also have some web hosting with them, and
>>> have
>>> found their support to be excellent (they literally helped migrate a
>>> database from another domain and hosting service to a new domain on
>>> their
>>> servers about an hour, and have handled several other requests in
>>> minutes).
>>>
>>> Another friend has been using GKG for several years - he seems quite
>>> happy
>>> with them.
>>>
>>> So far it sounds a like a 2-2 for both namecheap and GKG. :)
>>>
>>> George
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Obi-Wan  wrote:
>>>
>>> > OK, speaking of registrars, what's the cheapest .com registrar out
>>> there?
>>> > I'm going to be rebranding my photography business, and I want to
>>> register
>>> > several variations on the name just to protect the brand and allow
>>> for
>>> > possible future expansion.  I won't be advertising these secondary
>>> domains
>>> > in the foreseeable future, though, so I hate to spend a bunch of
>>> money
>>> > on an uber-reliable registrar.  Just somebody that will forward HTTP
>>> > requests to a different domain would be sufficient.
>>> >
>>> > I've used both Network Solutions (Verisign) and GoDaddy in the past,
>>> > and have no complaints with the technical performance of either.
>>> > What's the down side of the cheaper, lesser-known registrars?  Is it
>>> > just the ease of managing multiple domains?
>>> >
>>> > --
>>> > Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth
>>> obiwan at jedi.com
>>> >   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
>>> >     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
>>> >       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins
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>>>
>>>
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