[Cialug] network solutions

[Matt Stanton]

Just the price compared to other registrars.  It's only $5/domain/yr, but sometimes that's enough to make you start wondering if you can really get a better deal elsewhere.  Other people talk about how they get good service from places like namecheap.com and some other registrars.  I start wondering if it's really worth the extra $15 I pay per year for dyn.com if the stability and speed might be the same elsewhere... I'm not sure I would ever really notice small DNS outages, and I'm not really sure if other registrars ever really suffer from outages.

So I'm not sure if I'm afraid to go elsewhere or if I'm just too lazy to change.  I've never had a problem out of Dyn, but I'm not sure if problems should be expected out of any of the registrars...

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] network solutions

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
>
> Dial Center 112, Drake University
> 2407 Carpenter Ave / Des Moines IA 50311 USA
> Tel: +1 515 271-4540
> Fax: +1 515 271-1938
> E-mail: daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
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