[Cialug] network solutions

[Dave Hala]

Matt, what made you consider switching to another registar?


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> I have all of my domains at Dyn.com.  They have servers all over the
> planet, and got their start with their dynamic DNS service back in the 90s.
>  My original reason for using them was that they would let me set up some
> of my subdomains as dynamic, with others as static, so I could have www.*
> point to my server and home.* point to my dynamic IP at my house.
>
> After I switched from a physical, colocated box to Linode, I wrote a
> little php script that would take web requests from my home computer (using
> curl and the windows task scheduler running every 5 minutes) to grab the IP
> address and the Linode DNS API to change the IP addresses of whichever
> subdomains I specified.  This saved me that extra $30/domain I was paying
> to get the "custom DNS service".
>
> Dyn has some awesome infrastructure, and I believe they might also be
> running one or more of the root servers, but you also tend to pay extra for
> their domains.  I think the .com/.net/.org/.us domains are $15/yr, while
> I'm pretty sure other registrars provide those types of domains for as low
> as $9.95/yr.
>
> I have thought about transferring to other registrars a few times, but
> never really decided that the hassle of the move was worth the extra $15/yr
> I might be paying for my three domains.
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Daniel A. Ramaley" <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 10:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] network solutions
>
> On 2013-07-17 at 10:28:53, Nicolai wrote:
> >On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:10:09AM -0500, Dave Hala wrote:
> >> Gandi looks interesting, but I wonder if the electronic transfer of
> >> funds to a foreign bank could be an issue.
> >
> >It's never been an issue for me, and I've been a customer since at
> >least 2000.  Give them a try. :)
>
> When i was with Wells Fargo, using my card to pay Joker was never an
> issue for me. Now i'm on a smaller credit union and their computer
> freaks out whenever it sees a foreign transaction that i did not warn
> them about in advance. It just depends on what financial institution
> you are with. It is a simple problem that is easily fixed with a phone
> call though. Not a big deal.
> __
> Daniel A. Ramaley
> Network Engineer 2
>
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