[Gllug] Web hosting, email and dns

[Pavel Bradut Boghita]

Without necessarily answering your question here are my 2pennies worth 
thoughts.

I have registered a domain with dotster.com actually it was a transfer ( I 
was with easily.co.uk before) I really like the level of control they give 
you on your domain... in fact you are in total control.
For DNS resolution I use www.dyndns.org and the hosting.... it should be soon 
on my pc at home; unitl then there are some old pages on my space on a 
btinternet.com server. 
If you want email from dotster is another 10$ a year. 

Generally I found with domain names it's important to find a registrar who 
is(seems) honest enough about what they are doing and transparent in their 
practices. To me, easily.co.uk for example, (although they may be a very 
respectable company) seemed rather "fishy" in their approach, insisting on 
keeping them as technical contact, and not making it very easy to see or 
modify the other contact details. My comments on this apply especially for 
*.com domains for which there isn't much official paperwork for proof of 
ownership.
For *.co.uk domain you get a nice certification from Nominet which is quite 
reassuring. Also co.uk domains seem really cheap.
 
Regards, 

Bradut

On Friday 30 August 2002 1:29 pm, you wrote:
> Jonathan Dye wrote:
> >Has anyone got any experience with oneandone (http://oneandone.co.uk)?
> >It all looks very cheep as they advertise 2.89gbp per year for domain
> >registration (and it looks like they give you email and webspace too but
> > it could be a scam) but is it any good?
> >
> >JD
>
> I think that along the same lines as ukreg and fasthosts - you do indeed
> get what you pay for.  Otherwise they cannot afford the staff to assist
> when you have problems.
>
> Cheers
> Xander

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