BE CAREFUL!! Re: any reason NOT to move domains from NSI?
Anonymous
happens to their records and accounts if they fold? I know for a fact
that most pay $10/name, so you have to wonder how long they'll survive
on no margin. Are they going to lose on each transaction and make it
up in volume?
Short answer- NO!!! Losing small at high volumes is LOSING BIG!!!!!!!!
Once you are stuck with a cheapie, where are you going to transfer??
You'll get a nasty surprise if you try to transfer from a cheapie to a
cheapie, I'd bet a bazillion dollars on it. Most all run off the same
database (Tucows in Canada) and once you're there, you can't move from
one Tucows affiliate to another. They just don't do it.
My advice- Look for someone like DomainAlchemy that has other
interests and has strong banking (like Bank of America); chances are
if they have a non web-based banking relationship, they are a REAL
business, not a college student running a server off a DSL line.
Really- you'd be amazed at what lies behind a lot of these
storefronts.
I just transferred a domain to DomainAlchemy.com from
Network Solutions/House of Bureaucratic Horrors
and I have to say, those guys are pretty cool. Handled
half of the tree-shaking at NSI for me :-)
They charge me $12 less per name and give free parking/nameserver
I changed the nameservers over the web (no faxes or phone calls)
in 2 minutes and the changes worked within about 45 minutes.
I also got them to hook up a server account, though they haven't
officially started their hosting services. When they open, they'll be
WAY better than those (#*@(*()()()&)ers at ....uh, 9NetAve/Concentric
Circle of Hell ....oops, did I let that slip out? I'm sooooooo sorry.
:-)
Just FYI, SAY NO TO NSI!!!!!!!!!!
On Tue, 13 Jun 00 19:45:52 GMT, mta...@yahoo.com (Mike Tarkowelogi)
wrote:
>I have several domains that have been with Network Solutions for several
>years. I've started using another registrar for some new domains I have
>registered and have been VERY happy with their completely web-based
>domain management interface, as well as the cost (half of that of NSI).
>
>Is there any reason why I shouldn't move the domains I still have registered
>with NSI to the other registrar? What happens if the other registrar goes out
>of business? Is it just a safer bet to keep the domains at NSI (who is
>also the keeper of the central registry database, right)?
>
>Advice is appreciated!
>
>--mt
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In article <3982679c...@anonymous.newsfeeds.com>,
Anonymous <nob...@newsfeeds.com> writes:
> You'll get a nasty surprise if you try to transfer from a cheapie to a
> cheapie, I'd bet a bazillion dollars on it. Most all run off the same
> database (Tucows in Canada) and once you're there, you can't move from
> one Tucows affiliate to another. They just don't do it.
>
Actually they do do it, albeit manually. They are releasing the next version
of their client API's in september which will have automagic transfers
between affiliates built in.
If you are using a Tucows affiliate though, you pretty well have control
over your whois record and nameservers regardless of which affiliate
you are on anyways.
-mark