Registrars?
Steve Watt
unable to cope with PGP keys (they keep losing them, near as I can tell).
Is there another registrar out there that can cope with PGPed email updates,
or at least a reasonable level of security on web updates? (No, I don't
really count a reusable password as reasonable...)
And last, is this the right place for such questions, or would n.i.d.names
be right?
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Matthew D. Lammers
Although I've had my disappointments with Network Solutions, you'll
probably
find, as I did, that they seem to have the most cluons floating about
over
anyone else when it comes to the domain name games that people, as well
as
the registries, play.
We do a fairly large volume of name xfers and registrations, and I find
that Network Solutions is the lesser of the evils.
Based on our experience, CRYPT-PW is the best scheme we've found to use
with Network Solutions. As far as finding a registry that can sanely
handle
your PGP requests, I've been told by a fellow cow-orker, that Joker.Com
is a reasonable choice. I believe they are based in Germany.
-Matt.
Richard J. Sexton
I'm not aware of anybody else that does PGP. I don't even think
anybody else accepts email for domain regs/mods.
I'd never use joker.com. They paper spammed the ICANN meeting
in Berlin; very distastefull and they had to be the most
arrogant obnoxious pricks I'd ever met. You might be ok if
thiongs go well but if they don't god help you. You can see
for yourself by looking at the ICANN ReadBad Video from
the Berlin debacle. As Froomkin said "why is it for the
first time in my life these guys have made me feel some
sympathy for NSI".
The other person I'd avoid like the plauge is the psi-japan
(nothing to do to do with Bill Shraeders PSI) wingnut.
Look, I disgaree with popele all the time and couldnt
agree less with people like Javier Sola. But we're always
glad to see each other, always smile and laugh and are
polite. I have no use whatsoever for people who are
rude and obnoxious.
the opensrs thing looks good and is cheaper than aybody
else. They deserve to do well.
I doubt anybody is going to do email/pgp domreg stuff though,
in terms of marketshare it's just not worth the effort. If
you want to do it knock yourself out; write it, intrface
through opensrs and you and the 14 other people who use
it are off the races.
I see somebody created alt.binaries.aquaria. The irony of
this is not lost on me.
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Jim Kingdon
> else. They deserve to do well.
Right I just double-checked the web site and it looks cool (they are
saying the right things like "CVS" and such). Plus I sort of have
some respect for TUCOWS (at least, so far). Not sure about cheaper -
don't compare a wholesale price with a retail price. TUCOWS' retail
site is http://www.domaindirect.com/
> I doubt anybody is going to do email/pgp domreg stuff though,
> in terms of marketshare it's just not worth the effort.
Well, you'd think there would be a market for doing something
similarly secure. If not PGP, then uploading an SSH public key via a
web form or something. Maybe not a large market, but with as many
registrars as there are in the world....
Yeah, I know, I'm making false assumptions again (namely, that the
point of this whole exercise is to serve the domain owner).
On the whole, I'm quite happy to no longer be a domain name owner and
have to deal with this in any context other than spectator :-).
Jonathan McDowell
Jim Kingdon <kin...@panix.com> wrote:
>> the opensrs thing looks good and is cheaper than aybody else. They
>> deserve to do well.
> Right I just double-checked the web site and it looks cool (they are
> saying the right things like "CVS" and such). Plus I sort of have
> some respect for TUCOWS (at least, so far). Not sure about cheaper -
> don't compare a wholesale price with a retail price. TUCOWS' retail
> site is http://www.domaindirect.com/
I'm in the process of getting setup with OpenSRS myself - the actual
communication is done via an encrypted session from your machine or an
https webpage, so it seems to be a lot nicer that Network Solutions. The
mailing lists listed on the website are worth being on if you're
interested - I understand the archives are now on the web too.
They haven't got transfers from other registrars sorted out yet, but
it's something they're being hassled about and working on.
J.
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Richard J. Sexton
>saying the right things like "CVS" and such). Plus I sort of have
>some respect for TUCOWS (at least, so far). Not sure about cheaper -
>don't compare a wholesale price with a retail price. TUCOWS' retail
>site is http://www.domaindirect.com/
To be an ICANN accredited registrar means 10K and a $500K up frnoyt
performance bond. Then you get names for $6.
It costs, I think $100 to be an opensrs registrar and you get
names for $13.
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Jim Kingdon
> names for $13.
$10, actually. And yes, it is much easier than being ICANN
accredited. But there still is paperwork and software to download and
delays and such, I wouldn't do it for just one name although if you
had a bunch, I could see it.
For example:
Send a note to ri...@opensrs.org indicating the date and time you
*faxed* your contract. You will be issued a login/password within *48*
hours
http://www.opensrs.org/gsguide.shtml emphasis added
5. Do OpenSRS resellers have any minimums to commit to?
There are absolutely no contractual obligations
concerning the number of registrations made through
the OpenSRS. You are completely welcome to use
OpenSRS whether you register one new domain name per
month or one thousand. Practically speaking, if you
are not registering at least 25 domain names a year,
it will likely not be worth your while to implement
OpenSRS. Contact us and we will refer you to one of
resellers.
http://www.opensrs.org/faq.shtml