[PLUG] Looking for a good Domain Registrar

Nat Taylor bioborg at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 14:48:04 UTC 2014


I still have a gandi account, as I haven't got around to switching all my
domains to nearlyfreespeech.net , but for pricing and terms,
nearlyfreespeech.net cant be beat, imho...  I also really like their
interface for manipulating your zone files, etc...


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com>
wrote:

> On 08/20/2014 09:33 PM, Russell Johnson wrote:
> > I’ve been toying with the idea of switching my services to someone else.
> I’ve been with 1 and 1 for several years. When I got the service it was $10
> a month, and they hosted my DNS, registration, email and web site. And I
> have an SSH login to my space on their farm. That comes with something like
> 2000 email accounts, forwards are not counted as email addresses.
> >
> > Anyway, the service has gotten more expensive over the last couple of
> years, so I’m checking out my options. So far, I see people talking about
> DNS. I like the one stop shopping approach. Does gandi.net or any of them
> host the services I currently have? Don’t look it up, I can do that, but if
> someone knows off the top of their head, let’s hear it. :)
>
> My level of sophistication isn't high enough to know if fooling with DNS
> is something that can be done with the service I use, but a number of
> years ago I decided to switch from Arizona outfit I was using, the one
> with the lady race card driver spokeswoman. The research I did
> recommended using different services for domain registration and
> hosting. I ended up with Namecheap and StableHost. One of the folks
> making the recommendation pointed out that Namecheap was good at domain
> registration but left something to be desired when it came to hosting,
> whereas StableHost was good at hosting, but left something to be desired
> in the registration department. I don't do a lot with what I have, but
> I've been happy with the combination solution.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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