[Gllug] OT: Recommend UK domain host

[david at gbenet.com]

Hi Philip,

I have been with them since 1986 - in fact when the US
government/military whatever decided to create a private company -
Network Solutions took over my account from them.

Being an oldy - I have had no problems with them - I suspect that new
accounts get a pile of shit and they have more commercial interests now.
I can phone them - e-mail them and they say "yes Sir how can be of help."

With the rapid growth in people starting up Name Servers offering low
cost domain name registration - there have been problems no propagation
between name servers. They have always been good to me - having once
been an ISP I can't say with hand on heart that the growth of the world
wide web or the internet has brought great news. Though our hopes for a
much more united planet is still a dream.

David

Philip Hands wrote:
> 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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