[Cialug] Domain Registration

[Stuart Thiessen]

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I was using our webhost provider for domain name registration, but 
since I use dyndns.com dynamic dns feature so much, I decided to get my 
domain names through them. It has worked quite nicely so far. I plan to 
transfer the rest of the domain names I am responsible for to them 
soon.  It's about $15 for .net and .org and .com, I think.

We deaf are now using videophones extensively for our communication and 
to access video relay service which allows us to call hearing people 
over the phone with an interpreter or so hearing people can call us on 
the phone through an interpreter. So, it was very cool to find the 
dynamic DNS name services so we can give out names instead of IP's that 
change. So that is how I started using them. FYI.

On a side note that occurred to me, do any of you know of any video 
server capabilities under Linux?  For example, if you wanted to have a 
video conference call with several (or more) h.323 video users, do you 
know of a Linux project that would handle that? My understanding is 
that H.323 only allows for point-to-point calls. It seems there are 
commercial packages that run $20K or more that will somehow handle 
this. I haven't looked into the new videophone protocol (h.264 I 
believe). Maybe it allows for it. I don't know. Just thought I would 
ask.

Thanks,

Stuart

On Apr 7, 2006, at 6:58, Allen Kiddoo wrote:

> Please read the fine print on godaddy. When you register a
> domain with them you are renting it- they retain ownership.
> Their web interface attempts to sell you everything you
> don't want or need.
>
> I have used directnic.com for years- $15/yr for registration
> DNS service is $5/yr. Easy interface and good service.
>
> Allen Kiddoo
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> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "Brandon Griffis" <brandongriffis at gmail.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 14:59:19 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Domain Registration
>
>> I've had a great experience with godaddy.com Very inexpensive and I
>> even had a good experience with their support concerning my domain
>> transfer. My previous host didn't want to let the name go, so
>> godaddy recorded me authorizing the transfer and it was done shortly
>> there after.
>>
>> -Gamble
>>
>> On 4/6/06, Jerry Heiselman <jweida at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering who you guys use for domain name registration. I
>> have been wanting to get my own domain for sometime now, but have
>> only just started seriously considering it.
>>
>> I don't really care what TLD I get. I just want something that is
>> cheap, but has good customer service in case I have problems. Also,
>>  I tend to like local companies, but that's a pretty low requirement
>> since I would never really be dealing with them much.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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