[Gllug] OT: Recommend UK domain host

[Philip Hands]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:56:28 +0000, "david at gbenet.com" <david at gbenet.com> wrote:
> Hi good sorce of cheap hosting is http://www.3ix.org/ - I'm with Network
> Solutions been there for 20 years or so.

Wow!

I'm stunned that anyone would be willing to say anything even vaguely
positive about NSI, let alone be using them since there's been a choice.

I ran screaming from NSI as soon as an alternative (gandi) set up with
T&Cs that explicitly stated that the domain was property of the
registrant, unlike NSI.

Perhaps you were not bitten by NSI's implementation of PGP authentication
of instructions in email.  This is a laudable idea on the face of it,
and I was fully in support of it, but that was before it became apparent
that they'd pre-empted me by setting the PGP-only bit on my account
without consulting me, and also without enabling my (widely published)
PGP key.

They then proceeded to reject everything I sent them, and provided no
recovery route.

I remember getting a mail from them at one point that had taken several
(I think 5) months to go from their web server to _their_ mail server,
before whizzing over the pond to me a few second later.

In order to wrest control of the domain from them, I was reduced to
listening to their sodding call queue music for about 45 minutes, on an
expensive (that tells you how long ago this was) international phone
call, and when I got through to a human, he tried to put me on hold
again without listening to what I wanted.

Oh, and NSI were also the tossers that thought that it's a good idea to
redirect typos to their "Why don't you buy this domain?":

  http://www.pfir.org/statements/vs-domain-abuse

They are scum.

Oh, and their web site is _really_ annoying -- I was just wondering what
they charge for a .COM and after going through a twisty turney menu
system where they try to sell you things that most other people give for
free, it looks like about £35 for a year, dropping to $17p.a. for 10
years, so confusing and expensive.

When I left, the only reason to keep _any_ domains with them that I could
think of was to keep my NIC handle (PGH) -- I've not missed it, and I
note that while I was not paying attention they turned that off anyway:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIC_handle

=-=-=-=-

Gandi.net on the other hand are nice, and reasonably priced, and
ethical, and fans of Debian and Free Software:

  .co.uk for 6 quid every 2 years

DNS thrown in:  https://www.gandi.net/domain/zones

Oh, they're not UK, being based in France, but I've never noticed that
making any difference.

Cheers, Phil.
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