[ale] dyndns.com

[Jerald Sheets]

this sort of discussion is why I've just taken to spending the extra change
to get a business class account, register all my domains at hover.com, and
point everything directly at my server there.  The extra 20 or so bucks a
month plus the static IP plus no download caps, etc. etc. just makes it
that much a sweeter deal.


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Jerald M. Sheets jr.



On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:48 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, the $45 sounds about average for my bills. I admit that I've not
> drilled into it for a while so there may be better offers out there.
>
> Leam
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:45 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Do you pay for the standard DNS package? As I said, the cost for one year
>> was like $35 which seems high for a service other companies give away for
>> free when you buy a domain name.  That's why I was confused. If it was $5,
>> I could understand it.I'd say, "Well, they are a little high but I like the
>> accessibility of their web site."
>>
>>
>> On 10/30/13 12:30, leam hall wrote:
>>
>>> John,
>>>
>>> If I understand correctly, it is about $10-15/yr for name registration.
>>> Then you pay for DNS services. Not sure if OpenDNS could help here.
>>>
>>> FWIW I've been a DynDNS customer for a while.
>>>
>>> Leam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:24 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net <mailto:
>>> john at johnheim.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I want to get a dynamic dns account for my vanity domain,
>>>     johnheim.com <http://johnheim.com>. I see that dyndns has a debian
>>>
>>>     package so I went there and created an account. When I started
>>>     putting things in my shopping cart, I saw that  transfering the
>>>     domain was like ten or twelve bucks. But it wants to charge me
>>>     something like $35 for "standard DNS". Do I need that? I'm getting
>>>     a total of around $45 for one year. Everywhere else I look, it's
>>>     $10 to $15 *total*.
>>>
>>>     The shopping cart options at dyndns.com <http://dyndns.com>  for
>>>
>>>     DNS are something like "standard DNS", managed DNS (which is way
>>>     more), and "I want to run my own DNS server." I don't want to pay
>>>     $35 for DNS nor do I want to run my own DNS server.  Is the
>>>     shopping cart just misleading or do I really need that standard
>>>     DNS service?
>>>
>>>     I know that I could just use a different company but I'm blind
>>>     anddyndns.com <http://anddyndns.com> works well with a screen
>>>
>>>     reader. Better than  namecheap, godaddy, or namesecure.
>>>
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