[olug] OT: Domain Registrations

[Sam Tetherow]

I use godaddy as well and will add that they do provide some funding to 
a lot of pod/vid-casts that I follow via their promotion codes.

	Sam Tetherow

Christopher Cashell wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Matthew Will
> <mwill at midlandsnetworksolution.com> wrote:
>> I use both Verio and Rackspace.  But I also host a few more sites.  For
>> one or two sites personally I would go to Network Solutions.  But,
>> that's who I use for all of my domain registrations.  Second choice
>> would be GoDaddy only because they are a bit less expensive for
>> registering and hosting.  Both NS and GoDaddy have excellent
>> administrative interfaces and support if necessary.  In your situation I
>> could see you going to GoDaddy.
> 
> I have to take a slightly different stance in my opinion of Network
> Solutions.  I would never willingly use Network Solutions.  They are
> way overpriced, have behaved in unethical ways, and I've had nothing
> but problems with their service and support.  I first had problems
> with them many years ago when I registered my first domain name with
> them, and had additional issues in two separate cases at previous
> jobs.
> 
> The only thing I'd ever do with Network Solutions would be to transfer
> my domain(s) away from them, and pray that it didn't take me months of
> dealing with support to get it to go through.
> 
> GoDaddy has done some sketchy things as well (many discussed on the
> nodaddy site), but they do have the advantage of being cheap.  I don't
> particularly like them, but I dislike them less than many (most)
> alternatives.
> 
>> matthew will . network systems engineer
> 
> --
> Christopher
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