| James Barrett on 2 Mar 2008 13:45:22 -0800 |
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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:19:16PM -0500, JP Vossen wrote: > I am (of course) aware of GoDaddy.com, and that was the recommendation > x3 in 2005, but they bug me, partly because I find their site really > noisy (though dotearth may be even worse). They *are* a cheaper, > especially if I want to go for a 1 year for $9.99. Any recommendations, > or should I just Get Over It and use GoDaddy? Godaddy is cheap. If you get five or more domains at once, then you might possibly be able to get free private registration for all of them. Seriously, I have about 30+ domains registered with them. The hosting is horrendous - they do goofy stuff like forbid .htaccess rewrite rules for .php filenames. Also, do not bother with their email services. However, they do registrations and domain services very well. In fact it is safe to say that the only thing they do well is domain name registration. > I'm a bit wary of checking the names, given the recent domain name > tasting/front-running issues > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/08/1920215). dig(1) will safely tell you if the domain name points somewhere, although if someone has it registered but simply not pointing to nameservers then it might not show up in dig output (someone correct me if I'm wrong!). This is a hell of a lot safer than a whois request if you are worried about front-running. All dig does is query your domain name server to see if the domain points anywhere. -- James Barrett Attachment:
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