[ale] Recommendations for Domain Registrar?

[JD]

Last time I looked at Network Solutions, they were charging $80/yr for domain
registration. Has that changed?  Paying $7/yr seems like a ripoff to me.  It is
a user account record, 2-3 DNS of record records and a domainname. How hard is that?

Tried to visit the NS website to check current pricing - got a blank page.
Looked at the source and it was a javascript redirect.  Guess they don't want
business from anyone slightly security conscious?

To all website programmers - do you actually require javascript to show ANYTHING
on the primary website page?


On 03/13/2014 05:19 PM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Scary stuff.
> 
>  
> 
> Some years back one of our Network Solutions domains got pointed to some other
> DNS servers and we got it pointed back but they wouldn’t tell us what had
> happened.   A week or so later I found an article saying it had happened to
> other domains there.
> 
>  
> 
> This past Friday that very same domain got renewed for 5 years based on what
> appears to be a called in Social Networking thing.  Luckily they didn’t move the
> domain or actually change the official contacts.  I think we’ve raised enough of
> a stink about it that they’d have a hard time claiming we sold it.   My calls to
> them have not given me a warm fuzzy that they either know or care what actually
> happened Friday.
> 
>  
> 
> However, we do have over 300 domains with them and I’ve not seen those kind of
> issues on any of the others.   But then again I don’t get weekly offers from
> others to buy those domains and do this one.
> 
>  
> 
> Not long ago web.com bought Network Solutions so I’m afraid there may be flux in
> the organization allowing for more social engineering.
> 
>  
> 
> *From:*ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] *On Behalf Of *Jim Kinney
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:44 PM
> *To:* Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] Recommendations for Domain Registrar?
> 
>  
> 
> I dumped Network solutions when they sold one of my domains out from under me
> without my permission. They did the same thing a few months later to a client
> domain that included hosting.
> 
>  
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Alan Hightower <alan at alanlee.org
> <mailto:alan at alanlee.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm still using Network Solutions from back when they were the only game in town.
> 
> While they don't have Danica strutting around, I can say I've never really had
> an issue with them, have only had to call customer service once in 20 years, and
> they were very helpful then.
> 
> My $.02.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> 
> 
> On 2014-03-13 15:27, Aaron Ruscetta wrote:
> 
> I have a domain registration for a non profit that's due for renewal.
> 
> Currently with iPower.com
> 
> We would like to xfer ownership and I figured some shopping
> for a reasonably priced and freedom conscientious registrar
> was in order.
> 
> Thanks in advance for suggestions!
> 
> in peace,
> aaron